"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."

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"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."

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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land."

John Jakes, American Writer

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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

Horace Porter, American Soldier

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"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."

James Theodore Bent, English Explorer

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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."

William Bligh, British Soldier

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"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."

Otto Von Bismarck, German Leader

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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

Jim Gerlach, American Politician

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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

Perception

"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."

Writing

"April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four."

Humor

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."

Humor

"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."

Memory

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Compassion

"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives."

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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

"The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land."

"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."

"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."

"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."

"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

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"Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."

"The Public is merely a multiplied "me.""

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."

"April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four."

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."

"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives."