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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. ”
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ”
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ”
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ”
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ”
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. ”
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ”
When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach. ”
There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press. ”
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it. ”