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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
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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."
"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
"I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was."
"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
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