Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
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Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.Hervey Allen
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Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
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