#vere

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#clean #covered #dishes #eat #filled

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

— Richard H. Davis

#boards #built #covered #immense #lies

I discovered freedom for the first time in England. ↗

— Emperor Hirohito

#england #first #first time #freedom #i

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. ↗

— Jay Dratler

#attention #case #completely #discovered #i

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#blood #character #clan #easy #family

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#began #classical #competing #discovered #i

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#covered #distance #human #human voice #never

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#discovered #his #idea #just #man

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#being #country #environments #great #great men