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This is a quotation from 19th-century United States landscape architect A.J. Downing (1815-1852).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An...ackson_Downing
I just liked the florid enthusiasm of his writing style, a style that has fallen somewhat out of favour since the time of Dickens. However, if you don't like a long sentence that would almost certainly only ever have been written and never spoken, feel free to delete it.
In my opinion, there is no reason to delete it, if it's an example from English literature. Probably, it should be tagged as "archaic" or "old fashioned" if it's so.
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What an unfailing barrier against vice, immorality and bad habits are those tastes which lead us to embellish a home, to which at all times and in all places we turn with delight, as being the object and the scene of our fondest cares, labours and enjoyments; whose humble roof, whose shady porch, whose verdant lawn and smiling flowers all breathe forth to us, in true, earnest tones, a domestic feeling that at once purifies the heart and binds us more closely to our fellow beings.
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