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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom.
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
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I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
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― Villette
― Villette
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