"There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place."
— Greatness

January 1, 1970

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Francis Bacon; this sentence was inscribed on one side of the Golden Door of the Transportation Building at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, as reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)