“ Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cape of good fortune. ”
- James Weldon Johnson- Copy
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“ Well, I ought to know the folk of Cape Cod. I was born there, in Brewster, lived there all my youth, and since leaving, I can't remember ever having missed visiting the Cape during the year. Sometimes I've only gone there for a few days, often for months, but I always go back - I suppose that it's the call of my blood. ”
- Joseph C. Lincoln- Copy
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“ No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ”
- Van Wyck Brooks- Copy
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“ In 1904 my first novel, 'Cap'n Eri' was published. Other novels have followed with fairly annual regularity. They have all centered about Cape Cod and its people, for having thoroughly mastered the psychology of a type of American that was known, appreciated, though through an economic law, fast becoming extinct, it seems better to keep on picturing these people. ”
- Joseph C. Lincoln- Copy
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“ In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round — for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost — do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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