“Frankly Jess, on the grand scale—”
“You can’t think on the grand scale. You have to think on the small scale. Otherwise no-one’d ever do anything.”

— Jane Rogers, book The Testament of Jessie Lamb

Source: The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 137)

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