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Famous quotes containing the words pure, land and/or worlds:

    “In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “His genius can cover all the land with gorgeous palaces, but the reader does not abide in them, but pitches his tent rather in the desert and on the mountain-peak.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Lady Amelia would not for worlds have had the de Courcy blood defiled; but gold she thought could not defile.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)