Jefferson City

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    I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    In this absence of nine years I find a great improvement in the city of New York.... Some say it has improved because I have been away. Others, and I agree with them, say it has improved because I have come back.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)