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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.
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