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Modern Quotes by Gustave Eiffel
- It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that…
- Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one…
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- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
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