English/places

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    He that would the daughter win
    Must with the mother first begin.
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

    The places we have known do not only belong to the world of space in which we situate them for the sake of simplicity. They were but a thin slice between contiguous impression which formed our lives back then; the memory of a certain image is but the regret of a certain instant; and the houses, the roads, the avenues are fleeting, alas! as the years.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)