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Eric Bentley

"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."

Eric Bentley, English Critic
Geography, Biography
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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."

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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."

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"Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea."

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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

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"The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land."

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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

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"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."

James Theodore Bent, English Explorer
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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator
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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator
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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."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator
Geography, Journey, States, Turkey, United
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"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."

William Bligh, British Soldier
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