"No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world."

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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

— Agnes Repplier