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"The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume."
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"Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants."


"What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others."


"These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth."


"They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March."


"At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people."


"I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed."
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