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Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

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The mathematics are the science of form and quantity, mathematical reasoning is merely logic applied to observation upon form and quantity.

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"The nitre!" I said; "see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed."

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This - all this - was in the olden Time long ago.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
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Born: January 19, 1809
Died: October 7, 1849 (aged 40)
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