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Jerome

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Overview

Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the U.S. state of Arizona. Founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley, Jerome is approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2020 census, its population was 464.

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Notable quotes

“Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.”
— The Cry for Justice (1915), p. 397
“Ita se natura habet, ut amara sit veritas, blanda vitia existimentur.”
— Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
“Bruta quoque animalia et vagae aves, in easdem pedicas retiaque non incidunt.”
— Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
“Difficulter eraditur, quod rudes animi praebiberunt. Lanarum conchylia quis in pristinum colorem revocet?”
— Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
“Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.”
— Letter 133
“Dicæarchus in his book of Antiquities, describing Greece, relates that under Saturn, that is in the Golden Age, when the ground brought forth all things abundantly, no one ate flesh, but every one lived on field produce and fruits which the earth bore of itself.”
— Book II, 13

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