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“I am a Victorian. When I was young, I lived as everybody else did at that time, in the centre of a circle with a radius of about ten miles— so far as a pair of horses could draw me. Beyond that I hardly ever went, and I was isolated from other parts of England in a way impossible to conceive by those who have only known England as a country of motor roads and motor cars.”
Speech to the annual dinner of the Yorkshire Society, London (8 November 1933), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 134.
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