Sunday, September 26, 2010

Edwin Arnold

... the nearest earthly approach to Paradise or to Lotus-land, so fairy-like, is its scenery, so exquisite its art, so much more lovely still that almost divine sweetness of disposition, that charm of demeanour, that politeness humble without servility and elaborate without affectation, which place Japan high above all other countries in nearly all those things that make life worth living.

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