"There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned."
"I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me."
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Source: Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner
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