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"I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again."
Feelings
"Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill."
Flags
"As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds."
Divorce
"I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly."
Summer
"Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow."
Lie
"The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am."
Son
"Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization."
Civilization
"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo."
Work
"Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night."
Night
"You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time."
Time
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
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Personal Development
"A lie never lives to be old."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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Personal Development
"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
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"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."
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