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"Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth."
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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth."
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"If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing."
"We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico."
"The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland."
"We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below."
"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
"Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright."
"The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback."
"The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level."
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