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  1. Jacqueline Winspear _ A Lesson in Secrets

    corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you're on his side."
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  2. Jacqueline Winspear _ A Lesson in Secrets

    Theirs was a laughter fueled not by pressure from others, nor by alcohol or the whims of a partying crowd, but by a certain optimism that, even in the midst of the difficult times in which they lived, they had grasped a sense of possibility before it slipped through their fingers.
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  3. Jacqueline Winspear _ A Lesson in Secrets

    she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.
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  4. Jacqueline Winspear _ A Lesson in Secrets

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days." When she
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  5. Jacqueline Winspear _ A Lesson in Secrets

    {a statement someone makes to Maisie regarding attitudes prior to WWII}: "...the corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you're on his side.
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  6. Jacqueline Winspear _ A Lesson in Secrets

    Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.
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