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She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
For eight years under Woodrow Wilson he had been the number two man in the Navy Department.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
For sheer grit and audacity, Harriman had few rivals, and he now proceeded on a daring, even reckless corporate raid that would shake Wall Street to its very foundations. Since Morgan and Hill had stonewalled his request for a one-third holding in the Burlington, he would proceed to attack them from the rear. He would, instead, stealthily buy contr
... See moreMichael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)

Rather let it be named from the fishes that swim in it, the wild fowl or quadrupeds which frequent it, the wild flowers which grow by its shores, or some wild man or child the thread of whose history is interwoven with its own; not from him who could show no title to it but the deed which a like-minded neighbor or legislature gave him—him who thoug
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)

But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.