The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. (Mary Renault)

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.

Mary Renault

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