Quote#Wisdom
Professional and literary London I have known, academic Cambridge I…
Quote byJane Ellen Harrison · 1850–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Alpha and omega (1915), p. 8.
English (original)
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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