He now told me he was about to return to Philadelphia, and should carry over a great quantity of goods in order to open a store there.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
If you see that your servants, in going from the house to the servants' quarters, take by preference a short cut over a grass-plot artistically measured and laid out, you will, if it is possible, give in to this beaten track, and not obstinately adhere to your artificial plan, however correct it may be, and however much in conformity with the principles of landscape-gardening.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
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