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Seven Days in New Crete QUOTES

Seven Days in New Crete QUOTES

1 " Conversations between persons who do not like one another's selves are always sterile. "

― Robert Graves , Seven Days in New Crete

2 " We are entrusted, you must know, with the revision of the English Dictionary. On the evidence of the Liverpool find of Christmas cards, in which occurred such couplets as:

Just to hope the day keeps fine
For you and your this Christmas time,

and:

I hope this stocking's in your line
When stars shine bright at Christmas-time

I hold that "Christmas-time" was often pronounced "Christmas-tine", and that this is a dialect variant of the older "Christmas-tide". Quant denies this, with a warmth that is unusual in him.'
'Quant is right. "

― Robert Graves , Seven Days in New Crete