I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man.

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Africa is at once the most romantic and the most tragic of continents.

It may not be inapt to liken the attainment of the North Pole to the winning of a game of chess, in which all the various moves leading to a favorable conclusion had been planned in advance, long before the actual game began.

Auf dem Königsplatz, unmittelbar vor der Siegessäule, deren Nike den goldenen Kranz über sein Haupt hält, steht die zwölf Meter hohe Gestalt des “eisernen Hindenburg von Berlin,” die der Bildhauer Georg Marschall geschaffen hat, und die zum Besten der Nationalstiftung für die Hinterbliebenen der im Kriege Gefallenen mit goldenen, silbernen und eisernen Nägeln von wohlthätigen Leuten bedeckt werden soll. Am 4. September fiel die Hülle des Mals und die ersten Nägel wurden eingeschlagen.

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Jamestown, a name of first rank among historic names, saw the birth of English America.

In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of men's courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen again—surely—if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of peoples.

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I dipped through the filmy curtain into the boys' half of the dressing room and there was Sid sitting at the star's dressing table in his threadbare yellowed undershirt, the lucky one, not making up yet but staring sternly at himself in the bulb-framed mirror and experimentally working his features a little, as actors will, and kneading the stubble on his fat chin.

Before the first ship from Earth made a landing on Venus, there was much speculation about what might be found beneath the cloud layers obscuring that planet's surface from the eyes of all observers.