rushing quotes

The evil of it is, that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller's cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushingofthelarger worlds, and cannot seethemasthey circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Of the world of fashion. Bleak House, ch.2.

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