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When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

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To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary Burying-Ground. You can exist, but you cannot be said to flourish.

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Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.

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Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

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Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally be supposed.

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Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

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When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

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I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

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Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character.

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Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 11th, 1836

Died: March 19th, 1907

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