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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge.
Montgomery Schuyler
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Montgomery Schuyler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1843
Born: August 19
Died: 1914
Died: July 7
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