Mount Madison House

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“But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)