Northern Lesser Poland

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    “In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Imagining that I could
    A greater with a lesser pang assuage
    Or but to find if withered vein ran blood,
    I tore my body that its wine might cover
    Whatever could recall the lip of lover.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
    —Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)