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"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids."
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