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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

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

Richard Harding Davis

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

Richard Harding Davis

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

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.

Richard Harding Davis

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 Harding Davis

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

Richard Harding Davis

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.

Richard Harding Davis

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.

Richard Harding Davis

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 Harding Davis

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

Richard Harding Davis

Tonight 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.

Richard Harding Davis

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

Richard Harding Davis

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.

Richard Harding Davis

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.

Richard Harding Davis

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

Richard Harding Davis

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

Richard Harding Davis

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.

Richard Harding Davis