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“Where is the unexplored land but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any placeLondon, New York, Worcester, or his own yardis unexplored land, to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro;
Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (13401400)
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