Quotes by Richard Harding Davis - Page 1

The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Hands
Marine
Military
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No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Bed
Get Up
Persons
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Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Civilization
Fine
Morocco
Spoiled
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Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.
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Moral
Date
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What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Men
Mirrors
Opposites
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I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Languages
Ride
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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 / Journalist
Good Writing
Old Things
Secret
Writing
New Thing
New Way
Old Thing
The Secret Of
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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 / Journalist
Friday
Friday Night
Opera
Opera House
Wednesday
Junior
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I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Derby
Wednesday
Interesting Thing
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Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Boards
Covered
Immense
Snow
Lies
Pine
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I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Summer
Me Find More
Smiled
Texans
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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Army
Cliffs
Night
Passing
Sleep
Steady
Tumult
Canyon
Races
River
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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 / Journalist
Lively
Guns
Pull
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As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Ten
Landed
Go Away
Remained
Soon
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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 / Journalist
Fellows
Good Place
Ridicule
Account
Time Good Walk
Cane
Hat
Object
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I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Englishmen
Legs
Thousand
Bare
Express
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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 / Journalist
Doors
Gentleman
Headquarters
Pride
Son
Treats
Sergeant
Always Me I Am
Obey
Orders
Regularly
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All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Add
Congo
Entering
Fascination
Mines
Sight
Solomon
Work Great Mother
Advance
Work Great May
Mountains
Disappearing
Wedge
Years And Years
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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 / Journalist
Cost
Divorce
Witty
Diamonds
Marry
Good Deal
Well-Informed
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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 / Journalist
Flags
Flying
Portugal
Red
White
Yellow
Acts
Apparently
Balancing
Side
Watch
Grand
Houses
Inhabited
Row
Signal
Tower
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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 / Journalist
Circumstances
Difficult Circumstances
Discomfort
East
Good Things
Temper
Health Good Me
Content
Out Here
Pleased
Sent
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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 / Journalist
Department
Grateful
Headquarters
Tonight
Alarm
Captain
Fellow
Unusually
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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 / Journalist
Glad
Holiday
Time Good Enough
Time Good I Am
Time Good Start
Besides
Cut
Good Deal
Harassed
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