Saturday, February 23, 2008

“It was plain that they were in fact buying comfort, immunity from snow and slush, from piercing winds and sleet-clad streets, from sultry days and sleepless nights, from thunderstorms, cyclones, malaria, mosquitoes and bedbugs. All of which, in plain language, means that they were buying climate…”

— from Theodore S. Van Dyke’s 1890 “Millionaires of a Day”

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