Delaware River Mill

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“Sitting in that dusky wilderness, under that dark mountain, by the bright river which was full of reflected light, still I heard the wood thrush sing, as if no higher civilization could be attained. By this time the night was upon us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
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