Richard H. Davis, Jr. Quotes

• Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

  Richard H. Davis, Jr.

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  Tags in New, True, Anything

• As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.

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  Tags in Must, Without, Away

• All the fascination of King Solomon’s Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.

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  Tags in Seems

• 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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  Tags in Myself, Come, Few

• 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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  Tags in Bad, Cannot, Wish

• I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

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  Tags in Feeling, Place, Again

• 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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  Tags in Over, Ever, Here

• As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don’t know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.

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  Tags in Beautiful, Woman, Ever

• 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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  Tags in Here, Difficult

• Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

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• I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

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  Tags in Find, Here, Knew

• 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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  Tags in Selfish, Feel, Everything

• Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

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  Tags in Place, Fine, Spoiled

• 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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  Tags in Long, Lives, High

• The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

  Richard H. Davis, Jr.

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  Tags in Greatest, Little, Old

• To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

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  Tags in Men, Nice, Fire

• 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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  Tags in Night, Friday, Left

• You see, I’d not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I’d got over that by this time.

  Richard H. Davis, Jr.

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  Tags in Over, Thought, Special

• The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement.

  Richard H. Davis, Jr.

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  Tags in Thought, Night

Richard H. Davis, Jr. (19)

Birth:	22nd January, 1957
Death:	20th March, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Political Consultant

About

Richard H. "Rick" Davis, Jr. is an American political consultant. He currently serves as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Pegasus
Sustainable Century Merchant Bank, a private equity firm specializing in sustainable development projects. He is a managing partner of the business development and public affairs consulting firm Davis-Manafort, located in Alexandria, Virginia.

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