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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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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."
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"The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests."
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"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system."
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"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."
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"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
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"In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries."
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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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"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth."
Truth
"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
"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."
Men
"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."
Wife
"The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet."
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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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"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."
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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."
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