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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise ...
Rudyard Kipling
expatriates
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lf, presume not to God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind is Man. ...
Alexander Pope
humankind
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man. ...
Alexander Pope
humankind
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world toda ...
Barbara Cartland
virginity
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The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to ...
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Panama Canal
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We were soon in the smooth water of the Quakish Lake,... and we had our first, but a partial view of Ktaadn, its summit veiled in ...
Henry David Thoreau
Ktaadn, Mount
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What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the f ...
Henry David Thoreau
self-knowledge | sea | exploration
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I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of Stat ...
Thomas Jefferson
Cuba
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The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...
unknown author
whites
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We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
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worth
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