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One Reason We Haven't Any National Art Is Because We Have Too Much Magnificence. All Our Capacity For Admiration Is Used Up On The Splendor Of Palace-like Railway Stations And Hotels. Our National Tympanum Is So Deafened By That Blare Of Sumptuousness That We Have No Ears For The Still, Small Voice Of Beauty.

Compared With More Emotional Types, Vermonters Seem To Have Few Passions. But Those They Have Are Great And Burning. The Greatest Is Their Conviction That Without Freedom Human Life Is Not Worth Living.

Help That Is Not Positively Necessary Is A Hindrance To A Growing Organism.

Vermont Tradition Is Based On The Idea That Group Life Should Leave Each Person As Free As Possible To Arrange His Own Life. This Freedom Is The Only Climate In Which (we Feel) A Human Being May Create His Own Happiness. ... Character Itself Lies Deep And Secret Below The Surface, Unknown And Unknowable By Others. It Is The Mysterious Core Of Life, Which Every Man Or Woman Has To Cope With Alone, To Live With, To Conquer And Put In Order, Or To Be Defeated By.

Oh, Yes, Of Course I Like Music, Too. Very Much. It's So Pleasant Of An Evening, Especially When Made By Your Friends At Home. I Often Say I Like It Better Than Cards. Though I Must Say I Do Like A Good Game Of Bridge.