Victorian Quotes

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“Character, the Victorians believed, was the defining attribute of the individual and the essential prerequisite of the good society.”
 — Gertrude Himmelfarb
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“The gas was on in the Institute, The flare was up in the gym, A man was running a mineral line, A lass was singing a hymn.”
 — John Betjeman
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“For the Victorians, the moral imagination was not a matter of theory but of practice.”
 — Gertrude Himmelfarb
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