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ELIOT, TS. Signed Autograph Quote From Four Quart

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On thick card (125 x 205 mm.) in a bold, black script, Eliot has penned "History is a pattern / of timeless moments." T.S.E / Little Gidding / [q. full context]" eliot quotes from little gidding. An excerpt from the fifth stanza, "A people without history / is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern / Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and England. "

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