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Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and... the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. ...at Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.

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No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,But the whole boundless continent is yours.

— Epilogue to Cato, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, But the whole boundless continent is yours.

Jonathan Sewall

— Epilogue to Addison's Cato, written for the performance at the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and... the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. ...at Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.

— Chapter III, Sec. 2 (Book II)

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