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“A solitary traveler whom we saw perambulating in the distance loomed like a giant. He appeared to walk slouchingly, as if held up from above by straps under his shoulders, as much as supported by the plain below. Men and boys would have appeared alike at a little distance, there being no object by which to measure them. Indeed, to an inlander, the Cape landscape is a constant mirage.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxityboth of these have done destructive work in the colleges.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (18791944)
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