A constant and often profitable business in the 'silver trade' is carried on at these mines. As the miners rarely fail being in need of ready money, they are generally obliged to sell their bullion for coin, and that often at a great sacrifice, so as to procure available means to prosecute their mining operations. To profit by this trade, as is already mentioned, was a principal object of my present visit. Having concluded my business transactions, and partially gratified my curiosity, I returned to Chihuahua, where I arrived, November 24, 1835, without being molested either by robbers or Indians, though the route is sometimes infested by both...
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J. M. W. Turner
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E. M. Forster
The work of men" - and what is that? Well, we may any of us know very quickly, on the condition of being wholly ready to do it. But many of us are for the most part thinking, not of what we are to do, but of what we are to get; and the best of us are sunk into the sin of Ananias, and it is a mortal one - we want to keep back part of the price; and we continually talk of taking up our cross, as if the only harm in a cross was the weight of it - as if it was only a thing to be carried, instead of to be - crucified upon. "They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.
John Ruskin
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Harold Wilson
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Martin Luther King Jr.
