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in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.