Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 262
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“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
— Willa Cather, book My Ántonia
Book V, Ch. 3
My Antonia (1918)
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