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"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."
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"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."
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"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."
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"Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else."
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"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."
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"Basically, I'm a romantic."
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"I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced."
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"I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking."
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"There is too little courtship in the world."
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"The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects."
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"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."
April
"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."
People
"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"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."
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"The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level."
Sea
"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."
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"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."
People
"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
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"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."
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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."
Earth
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