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Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
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Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.
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Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.
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Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
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Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
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I'm going now. My time has come.
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No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
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Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!
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