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“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizationspast and presentare often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individuals hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
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