North Somerset Levels - Towns and Villages On The North Somerset Levels

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—Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)

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—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

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—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

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—Henry Miller (1891–1980)