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length of straight line that connects two points in a measurable space or in an observable physical space
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“Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be unable to produce in the northern hemisphere. Flax was the first conqueror — a hollow conqueror — of the distance which so often shaped Australia's destiny.”
“Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires.”
“Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.”
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”
“By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.”
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