"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours."
— World

January 1, 1970

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William Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets, Part I, XXXIII; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.