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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.


Townsend Harris


#asia #commercial #countries #england #fifty

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.


Townsend Harris


#appears #bring #english #fond #here

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.


Townsend Harris


#case #circumstances #england #first #gradually

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.


Paul Muldoon


#day-to-day #had #happening #ireland #level

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.


Charles Dickens


#equality

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.


Barbara Grizzuti Harrison


#corporate #fish #i #least #real

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.


Barbara Grizzuti Harrison


#evil #good #good and evil #lesser #moral

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.


George Harrison


#else #flows #life #make #only

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.


George Harrison


#away #behind #between #far #glimpse

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.


Gregory Harrison


#always #compromise #few #friends #held






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