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“The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)