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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar."
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"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
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"We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio."
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America."
Government
"The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children."
Family
"But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape."
Creativity
"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
Geography
"I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar."
Geography
"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
Geography
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