Stanley Falls

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    Learn by our friendship to create
    An immaterial fire,
    —Thomas Stanley (1625–1678)

    It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)