Professional and literary London I have known, academic Cambridge I do know. That other Youth-that is, happy peasants, coal-heavers, opulent stockbrokers, and the higher form of young barbarians-I do not know, and of them I do not speak. I accept my limitations. (Jane Ellen Harrison)

Professional and literary London I have known, academic Cambridge I do know. That other Youth-that is, happy peasants, coal-heavers, opulent stockbrokers, and the higher form of young barbarians-I do not know, and of them I do not speak. I accept my limitations.

Jane Ellen Harrison

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