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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place."
"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
"The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went."
"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
"The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood."
"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"
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