“As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Canto 3, stanza 4
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.”
Strictly Personal, p. 156 (Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1941)
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