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"There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fishhook with."
---Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
"People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County."
---Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
It's a slow burg(town)---I spent a couple of weeks there one day.
---Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes"
"Speed Adjustments" by John Ciardi
Why does a boy who's fast as a jet
Take all day---and sometimes two---
To get to school?
"The Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.