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The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has bee ...
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spi ...
Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimp ...
The Channing you have seen and described is the real Simon Pure. You have seen him. Many a good ramble may you have together! You ...
Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. P ...
As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the earl ...
The trees lay at full length, four or five feet deep, and crossing each other in all directions, all black as charcoal, but perfec ...
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
... we, like so many others who think more of working than of dying, care only to push on steadily, wishing less for cessation of ...
People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a l ...
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