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"The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek."
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"I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice."
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"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
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"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side."
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"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise."
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"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."
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"I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff."
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"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."
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"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."
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"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
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"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."
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