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Updated: July 29, 2025

Finally, Washington overruled the decision of Michigan-a feat far more feasible now than it would have been prior to the Southern war-and the steamers were permitted to pass through into the waters of Lake Superior. From thence to Thunder Bay was only the steaming of four-and-twenty hours through a lake whose vast bosom is the favourite playmate of the wild storm-king of the North.

Sir William Francis Butler - The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America

You've planned out your understandings and tolerances and enquiries and clearings-up as if the world were all just men or citizens and nothing doing but racial and national and class prejudices and the exacting and shirking of labor, and you seem to ignore altogether that man is a sexual animal first first, Stephen, first that he has that in common with all the animals, that it made him indeed because he has it more than they have and after that, a long way after that, he is the labor-economizing, war-and feud-making creature you make him out to be.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Passionate Friends