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"Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it."

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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

— Emily James Smith Putnam

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