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Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening, as always to be moving in the same groove, with no thought beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us.
Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening, as always to be moving in the same groove, with no thought beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us.
In print by 1893 AD · industrial
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- Dean Stanley (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1893 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Dean Stanley. · page_315
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