If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Henry Sheridan

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Texas

Speaker

Philip Henry Sheridan

Language

English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Military officer

From

United States

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Citation

Sheridan, Philip Henry. Quoted in The Pittsburgh Gazette. Mar. 1866.

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Source
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864, ch. 1.

Current Citation

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1866 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 5.

Current Citation

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