Henry Morton Stanley Quotes

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• Doctor Livingstone, I presume?
• An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my…
• Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.
• Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful…
• The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely…
• I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was…
• The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in…
• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize…
• But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all…
• The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
• Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

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