It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by ster — Lytton Strachey
It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by ster — Lytton Strachey
It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by ster — Lytton Strachey
It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by ster — Lytton Strachey
It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by ster — Lytton Strachey
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It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

— Lytton Strachey
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