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"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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"When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us."
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"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."
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"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."
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"I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media."
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"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
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"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!"
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"I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country."
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"For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world."
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"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."
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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
"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
"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
"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."
Truth
"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova."
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"If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing."
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"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
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"Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm."
Decision
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