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No the mill-town would not grow beautiful as it grew larger rather, in obedience to the grim law of industrial prosperity, it would soon lose its one lingering grace and spread out in unmitigated ugliness, devouring green fields and shaded slopes like some insect-plague consuming the land.
Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree
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