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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar."
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"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."
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"A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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"The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on."
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"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
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"Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station."
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