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Although I had less than a minute for reflection, I felt, by a kind of instinct, that I must conceal my experiences from my Wife.

— Edwin Abbott Abbott Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

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I declared that I could say nothing more, and that I must commit myself to the Truth, whose cause would surely prevail in the end.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

'One touch of Nature makes all worlds akin.'

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, "Attend to your Configuration."

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

"Infinite beatitude of existence! It is; and there is none else beside It."

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)

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