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“What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put together and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harpers Ferry engine-house,that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestonechildhoods end. We have left a safe place and cant go home again. We have moved into a world where life isnt fair, where life is rarely what it should be.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
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