Line/business

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“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”
—Augustine Birrell (1850–1933)