American Pit Bull

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    Experience cannot be transferred. We may give wise advice, but we cannot give wisdom to follow it.
    H., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 230-3 (May 1828)

    Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one’s stomach the separation from terra ... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known ... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.
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    Not glad, lifeless tycoon, nor sorry feel
    For neither Bull nor Bear attends your way....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)