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Mornings, the flower-women hawk their wares—
Bronze caryatids of a genial race,
Bearing the bloom-heaped baskets on their heads.

— Hervey Allen Carolina Chansons (1922)

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A victory for any side is a defeat for every side now.

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It is only men of genuine philosophical sense who can understand that the form of government is the most important thing in the world.

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A great longing for that happy, waltzing, music-box time came over him.

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Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

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