God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophis…

D. H. Lawrence
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p.250, Cambridge University Press
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