An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the … - Henry Morton Stanley

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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Henry Morton Stanley

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

Command, Expedition, Obstacle, Obstacles, Travel, Want

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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 man is purely animal.

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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 vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Book, Ideas, Information, Instance, Shapes

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Conditions, Primitive, Return, Socialism

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

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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 subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]. . . that the writer. . . must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

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