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Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.
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Lee is the greatest military genius in America, myself not excepted.

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— As quoted in Life of General Robert Edmund Lee (1870) by C. Stoctly Errickson, p. 35

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To his industry we are exclusively indebted for all that is known of the state of Ireland during the whole of the middle ages, a few barren Chronicles excepted.

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— John S Brewer Giraldi Cambrensis Opera Vol. 1 (1861), p. xl.

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Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

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— "In Defense of the Fence,"WorldNetDaily.com, April 4, 2008.

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Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)


— "In Defense of the Fence,"WorldNetDaily.com, April 4, 2008.

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To his industry we are exclusively indebted for all that is known of the state of Ireland during the whole of the middle ages, a few barren Chronicles excepted.


— John S Brewer Giraldi Cambrensis Opera Vol. 1 (1861), p. xl.

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