Famous quotes containing the words rapid and/or city:
“It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The city mouse lives in a house;
The garden mouse lives in a bower,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (18301894)
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