"Tall tales" were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing
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When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line
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Now, it may be stretching an analogy to compare epidemics of cholera--caused by a known agent--with that epidemic of violent crime
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It is not generally remembered, if known, by the descendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their firs
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When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd
with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy nig ...
with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy nig ...
New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids o
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When raging love with extreme pain
Most cruelly distrains my heart, ...
Most cruelly distrains my heart, ...
Paper is soft and ink is fluid; it might be better if some pages of this chronicle could be written on chips of granite at the poi
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest re
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How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call ...
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