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Answer: They breathe the atmosphere of free states, almost touching them on both sides.
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Mann attributes the success of certain towns to their proximity to free states.
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Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
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