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Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

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When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in David Herbert Lawrence
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