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"The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward."
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"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
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"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
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"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."
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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
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"He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone."
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"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves."
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"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
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"We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail."
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"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
Revolution
"It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below."
Nostalgia
"Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses."
Being
"Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect."
Climate
"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."
Man
"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule."
Home
"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures."
Art
"Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte."
Climate
"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
Geography
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