22 Quotes by Richard H. Davis

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    I went up to see Hopper the other night, which was the first time in three months that I have been back of a theater, and it was like going home.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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