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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"I like geography. I like to know where places are."
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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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"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."
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"In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe."
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"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Creativity
"Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
Art
"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Life
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
Genius
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Language
"All great art is born of the metropolis."
Art
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
Education
"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
Worth
"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
People
"Literature is news that stays news."
Literature
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