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"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"
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"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."
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"A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable."
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"Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag."
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"If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?"
War

"American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature."
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"The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood."
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"May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country."
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"The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went."
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"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."
Justice
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