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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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"We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions."
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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
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"It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined."
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"The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice."
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"Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?""
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"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"
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"You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland."
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"The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet."
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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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"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
Country

"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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"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."
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"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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