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"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them."
Fight
"My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood."
Death
"My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost."
Government
"My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa."
February
"The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily."
Men
"The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely."
Being
"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."
Love
"I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them."
Enemy
"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state."
Men
"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it."
Men
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