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Ben the Wagon Boy

by Howard R. Driggs

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Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

by Richard Brookhiser

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The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four

by Edmund Spenser

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“But then we remembered. What did time matter when one was on an endless voyage?... And so we resigned ourselves and cultivated the virtue of patience. Only then did I notice that my back had begun hurting again.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Life and Death in a Coral Sea

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“Silner's hut" we called it. There he spent his free time, surrounded by boxes and cans (we use the spar deck to store everything that we have no other space for), doing those mysterious things that all photographers seem to do when left to themselves.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Life and Death in a Coral Sea

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“I put in, in all, 15 years among the Sioux, Assiniboines and Mountain Crows. I'm not going into the subject, but I will say that the more I saw of the relations of the white man and the Indian, the more sympathy I had for the Indians. pg 62”
― Fred Lockley, Voices of the Oregon Territory Conversations With Bullwhackers,Muleskinners,Pioneers, Prospectors, 49Ers, Indian Fighters

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“Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened. Chapter 15.”
― J.M. Barrie, Petar Pan

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“Time and again we have come across phenomena eminently worthy of being investigated - only to have them disappear before we could make eve a visual record... Without being unduly pessimistic, I would say that, for every success we have had in filming or recording a matter of scientific interest, we have had ten failures. - p 46 Life and death in a coral sea”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Life and Death in a Coral Sea

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