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"I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero."
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"The more a man grasps and knows, the greater is the horizon which opens up before him."
— Alice Bailey
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