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• Religions change; beer and wine remain.
• Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
• Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was…
• Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
• Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
• Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with…
• Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void
• In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this…

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