Distinct Turkish Alphabet

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    “I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I wonder, Mr. Bone man, what you’re thinking
    of your fury now, gone sour as a sinking whale,
    crawling up the alphabet on her own bones.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)