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The Flagler bridge was built in 1938. Bridges then were built for a 50-year life. We certainly got a lot out of it.


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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, say...
WILLIAM PENN Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you h...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY