"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic……" — Henry David Thoreau
"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough."
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Henry David Thoreau
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