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A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. I

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. – Henry David Thoreau

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Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
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