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    “I am not sure but all that would tempt me to teach the Indian my religion would be his promise to teach me his.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
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    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)