"The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown."

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Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

Henry Walter Bates

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Southern Quotes

“Without a song, each day would be a century.”
“Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.”
“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.”
“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.”
“I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.”

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“This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.”

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“In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.”
“The singing was something I got from my father.”

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