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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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