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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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David Gaub McCullough
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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