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Lack of drama and spectacle contributes to our Greatness!

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It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtedly very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness.


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Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitude; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine.


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This whole question is very akin to the question that has caused much debate hours of enjoyable discussion on this topic around the fire of the servants' hall at the end of a day. 


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讲述了过去的一些他所不齿的管家类型。昙花一现的，墙头草类型的，碎嘴的等等他看不上的。那么他认同什么呢？ 他提到了一个神秘机构！

To the best of my knowledge, for all the talk this question has engendered over the years, there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer. The only instance that comes to mind is the attempt of the Hayes Society to devise criteria for membership. 

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