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Henry Morton Stanley has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Doctor Livingstone, I presume?
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An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the…
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Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.
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Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously…
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The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a…
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I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to…
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The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great…
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When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the…
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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures…
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The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
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Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must…
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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those…
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It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or…
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The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great…
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They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.
— Lauren Willig
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Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
— Andre Balazs
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The mercantile business did not suit me
— John James Audubon
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.…
— Rick Atkinson
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The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations…
— James Stephens
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