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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"

"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river."

"I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition."

"You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up."

"We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end."
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