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Dec 2016
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Little: What Would an Englishman Do?

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
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Reading Harold Nicolson’s reflection that an “Englishman would not like to take snapshots of a fine vessel sinking” reminds me to ask myself: How, in my own life, can I live up to the highest ideas of my country?

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