A state of rigor
“My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine.’’
Marilynne Robinson (born 1943), American novelist and essayist, in the novel Gilead
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“In Maine we have a saying that there’s no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. “
– Edmund Muskie (1914-1996), Maine governor and U.S. senator who served as secretary of state under President Carter