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To me Newport could never be a place charming by reason of its own charm. That it is a very pleasant place when it is full of people, and the people are in spirits and happy, I do not doubt. But then the visitors would bring, as far as I am concerned, the pleasantness with them.


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  • Peter Yapp (1983). The Travellers' dictionary of quotation: who said what, about where?. Routledge. p. 931. ISBN 0710009925.