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Meriwether Lewis has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.
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A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the…
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On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards…
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The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of…
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The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a…
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Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was…
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Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and…
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A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she…
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We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the…
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The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he…
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We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
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We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild…
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
— Daniel Boone
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A ship's a fool to fight a fort.
— Horatio Nelson
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice,…
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It…
— Madeleine Stowe
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But…
— Demosthenes
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west…
— Red Cloud
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I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.
— Zach Galifianakis
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
— Calamity Jane
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I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school,…
— Armie Hammer
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People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever…
— Peter Fonda
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I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
— Danny Glover
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry…
— David Lynch
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