She kisses her killed boy. And she is sorry. Chaos in windy grays through a red prairie.
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Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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We crossed the Embarras River and encamped on a small branch of the same about one mile west. In pitching my tent we found three massasaugas or prairie rattlesnakes, which the brethren were about to kill, but I said, ‘Let them alone—don’t hurt them! How will the serpent ever lose his venom, while the servants of God possess the same disposition and continue to make war upon it? Men must become harmless, before the brute creation; and when men lose their vicious dispositions and cease to destroy the animal race, the lion and the lamb can dwell together, and the sucking child can play with the serpent in safety.
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... wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.
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The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
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Any job a man can do to make his way in the world is a decent job as long as he works hard and does his best. God didn't put sweat on a man's body for no reason. He put it there so he could work hard, cleanse himself and feel proud. Hard workin' folks only smell bad to some folks who have nothing better to do but stick their noses in the air.
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It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to flip 'em the bird.
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You can't go through this life being afraid to love, because, without love, there just isn't any reason for living.
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