The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord Byron
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
Daniel H. Hill