American History

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“Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)