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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."
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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
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"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."
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"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."
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"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."
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"A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin."
Time
"In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high."
Nation
"Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country."
Nation
"Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it."
Love
"If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting."
Work
"Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind."
Tragedy
"The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all."
Nothing
"Home is the nicest word there is."
Home
"There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there."
Animals
"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all."
Laughter
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