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• The truly admirable city secures interest, and even passionate love, not because it is a congeries of thriving factories, but rather by the dignity of its position, the splendour of its architecture, the variety and volume of its life, the imperial, literary, and artistic interests of which it is the centre, and the prolongation of its history thro...
• 'Earth hath not anything to show more fair,'
• From this exalted prelude I will at once descend to more prosaic matter, leaving my reader, in his charity, to devise for me an apology which I have neither the wit nor the desire to invent for myself.
• Blessed is he who has variety in his life: thrice blessed is he who has both freedom and variety:
• would never undertake that laborious quest of wealth, which robs men of the power to enjoy it when it is obtained.