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Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
Approximate author period: c. 1821 AD · industrial
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- Washington Irving
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- Approximate author period: c. 1821 AD · industrial
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Society · anthology attribution: Washington Irving
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