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I know of the boons that machinery has conferred on men, all tyrants have boons to confer, but service to the dynasty of steam and steel is a hard service and gives little leisure to fancy to flit from field to field.

— Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

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A man is a small thing and the night is very large and full of wonders.

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