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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Wisdom
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Work
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
Friendship
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Truth
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
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"Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!"
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
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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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"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
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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."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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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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"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."
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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
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