"Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

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"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

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"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

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"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."

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"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."

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"The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement."

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"Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization."

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"I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly."

Summer

"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

"Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night."

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"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

"Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time."

Time

"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."

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