Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidi…

E. B. White
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. ✨ E.B. White (2011). Here is New York, p.26, New York Review of Books
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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. ✨ E.B. White (2011). Here is New York, p.26, New York Review of Books

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