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  1. Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men th…

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  2. There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

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  3. It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of ferve…

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