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“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder eventhe French air clears up the brain and does gooda world of good.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (18531890)
“No annual training or muster of soldiery, no celebration with its scarfs and banners, could import into the town a hundredth part of the annual splendor of our October. We have only to set the trees, or let them stand, and Nature will find the colored drapery,flags of all her nations, some of whose private signals hardly the botanist can read,while we walk under the triumphal arches of the elms.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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