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Remarks in Asheville, North Carolina

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Apr 22, 1910

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

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Feb 16, 1909

Every American citizen should feel not merely gratification, but a very keen sense of pride in the statement made by this distinguished body of engineers as to the way in which the work has been done, and in which it is now proceeding.

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Feb 8, 1909

I do not recommend any appropriation for their services, but only for the expenses that will be required to finish the task that they have begun.

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