Top 12 Richard Harding Davis Quotes

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Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civili

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
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I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
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Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
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Of course, the idea of a six months’ holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
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Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.
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I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.
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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
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As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don’t know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
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Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
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Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
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