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“It is hard to believe that England is so near as from your letters it appears; and that this identical piece of paper has lately come all the way from there hither, begrimed with the English dust which made you hesitate to use it; from England, which is only historical fairyland to me, to America, which I have put my spade into, and about which there is no doubt.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)