European Brown Bear

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“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Debussy—A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)