None of us had ever been anywhere before we all hailed from the interior travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
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There was worlds of reputation in it, but no money.
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