National Register of Historic Places Listings in Pierce County

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    “Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”
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    “It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)

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    when it is over he places her,
    like a phone, back on the hook.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

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    —Unknown. The Death of Queen Jane (l. 7–8)

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    Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
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    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)