A town, a country-place, is from afar a town and a country-place. But,… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

A town, a country-place, is from afar a town and a country-place. But, as we draw near, there are houses, trees, tiles, leaves, grass, ants, limbs of ants, in infinity. All this is contained under the name of country-place.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶375
License: Public domain · Source
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