London is a world of glamour, excitement, activity, amusement and all the attractions of worldly wit and casual relationships; but we also infer that it is a world of endlessly false appearances, a world in which manners substitute for morals, a world given over to cold deception, manipulation and exploitation.
Tony Tanner (1935-1998), Jane Austen
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That sounds about right to me.
Cheers, Pete.
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Well said, for somebody who left The Smoke for The Sticks. Thanks for the comment.
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