I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.


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The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
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New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decid...
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Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
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The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't...
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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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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of d...
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This is more than a success story. It is a dream come true.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
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Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a...
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf...
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The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks
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Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
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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 je...
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A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.
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