I find it all infinitely sad, but at the same time so entrancing, that I often feel as if it would be the part of wisdom to fly at once to the woods or mountains where one can always find peace. - Dora Root in a letter to Daniel Burnham
("The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America")
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