If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Volume 1. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, no. 334.

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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring—not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring—not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.