"There is no end to the deceits of the past; we protest that we know it is cozening us, and it continues to cozen us just as much."
— Vernon Lee

January 1, 1970

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"In Praise of Old Houses", in Longman's Magazine, no. 1170 (July 1892) p. 295, and collected in Limbo, and Other Essays (London: Grant Richards, 1897) p. 40