"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."

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"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Richie Norton, American Author

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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