When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.Carl Sandburg
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The past is a bucket of ashes.
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By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars
and has a soul.
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