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title: "5 Crowded cities Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-henry-hudson/for-here-the-religion-that-languishes-in-crowded-cities-or-steals/)

[William Henry Hudson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-henry-hudson/)

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> [The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/the-poison-was-brewed-in-these-west-lands-but-it-has-spat-itself/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/nature-reaches-out-to-us-with-welcoming-arms-and-bids-us-enjoy-her/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fitz-greene-halleck/come-to-the-bridal-chamber-death-come-to-the-mother-s-when-she-feels/)

[Fitz-Greene Halleck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fitz-greene-halleck/)

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> [From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/from-the-strictest-humanitarian-viewpoint-any-attempt-to-stop-the/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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