American Numbering Plan

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“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)