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Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
- Richard Harding Davis
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#I Am
#Selfish
#Start
#Time
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Mountains
#New
#Pine
#Snow
#Two
I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Find
#Here
#Me
#More
#Summer
The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Gentleman
#I Am
#Me
#Pride
#Son
I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Guns
#Myself
#Necessary
#Sports
#Time
You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.
- Richard Harding Davis
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#Hat
#Me
#Time
#Walk
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
- Richard Harding Davis
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#House
#Me
#Night
#Opera
Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Hill
#Long
#Man
#Sheep
#White
Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
- Richard Harding Davis
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#Grateful
#I Am
#Me
#Men
I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Here
#Interesting
#Out
#Think
#Wednesday
Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Anything
#Good
#Late
#New
#True
As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Beautiful
#Diamonds
#Good
#Know
#Woman
Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Civilization
#Fine
#Place
#Spoiled
#Very
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Good
#New
#Old
#Say
#Way
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
- Richard Harding Davis
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#Good Things
#Good
#Health
#Me
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