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there_are_no_flowers

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·published 2007-06-01 19:34 UTC
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  public class Ellsworth {
     public static void main(String[] arguments) {
  	String line1 = "The advancement of the arts, from year\n";
  	String line2 = "to year, taxes our credulity, and seems\n";
  	String line3 = "to presage the arrival of that period\n";
  	String line4 = "when human improvement must end.";
  	String quote = line1 + line2 + line3 + line4; 
  	String speaker = "Henry Ellsworth";
  	String title = "U.S. Commissioner of Patents";
	String from = "1843 Annual Report of the Patent Office";
 	System.out.println('\u0022' + quote + '\u0022');
 	System.out.println("\t" + speaker);
 	System.out.println("\t" + title);
 	System.out.println("\t" + from);
   }
 }


Ellsworth.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected
1:   public class Ellsworth {
^

Ellsworth.java:2: illegal start of type
2:   public static void main(String[] arguments) {
^

Ellsworth.java:16: <identifier> expected
16: }
    ^

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