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"You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: "All hope abandon ye who enter here"." – George Bernard Shaw, "The Future of Political Science in America", p. 7–8 (1933)
"Bartholdi produced a series of drawings in which the proposed statue began as a gigantic female fellah, or Arab peasant, and gradually evolved into a colossal goddess that resembled the ones he had contemplated in the early and mid 1860's." – Edward Berensonas ,"The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story"
"Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The…
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