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21 " The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. "
22 " Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "
― Oscar Wilde
23 " If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. "
24 " In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace. "
