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• I may safely affirm, there was not a bit of meat eaten, or a drop of tea or coffee drunk, in the whole caravan of merchants, with 200 camels, including, with the Arabs, some 150 persons, during the last four days, except what was eaten and drunk in my tent. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• They are examples worthy of imitation; and I venture to affirm, there is not one of our New England towns that has not given to the world a son able to make a similar contribution to the cause of general learning. —  Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions
• The utmost he can affirm is the association of two classes of phenomena, of whose real bond of union he is in absolute ignorance.' —  Fragments of science, V. 1-2
• And I affirm, the spacious North Exists to draw thy virtue forth. —  Poems Household Edition
• But to affirm, as I hear some do, in order to countenance a fearful and servile spirit, that this point did not belong to my subject, is a false and foolish objection. —  The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters

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