Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Quotation of the day for September 13, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for September 13, 2011



"We wished to go very far. Japan is too near. There is always the telegraph. The Pacific gives you at least two months free from news."

- John La Farge, artist, explaining why he was making a trip to the South Seas. Quoted in Romantic Paintings in America by James T. Soby and Dorothy C. Miller.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Aug. 30, 2011

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