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“The inhabitants of St. Johns and vicinity are described by an English traveler as singularly unprepossessing, and before completing his period he adds, besides, they are generally very much disaffected to the British crown. I suspect that that besides should have been a because.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We are caught up Mr. Perry on a great wave whether we will or no, a great wave of expansion and progress. All these mechanical inventionstelephones, electricity, steel bridges, horseless vehiclesthey are all leading somewhere. Its up to us to be on the inside in the forefront of progress.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
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