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Updated: June 10, 2025
This river we call Porcupine from the great number of those anamals found about it's mouth. a Short distance above about 1/4 mile and on the Lard Side a large Creek falls in, which R. Fields went to examine & reports that it is a bold running Stream, 30 yds wide as this Creek is 2000 miles up the Missouri we Call it the 2000 mile Creek, we proceeded on 3 miles & Camped on the S. S. here I joined Capt Lewis who had in my absens walkd. on the upper Side of Porcupine River for Some distance- This river from its Size & quantity of water must head at no great distance from the Saskashawan on this river I Saw emence herds Elk & Buffalow & many deer & Porcupine.
Consequently praise should be as rare as is now the case with blame, which is withheld under the influence of personal considerations, coupled with the maxim accedas socius, laudes lauderis ut absens. It is quite wrong to try to introduce into literature the same toleration as must necessarily prevail in society towards those stupid, brainless people who everywhere swarm in it.
'I never believed one word of it, said Charles; 'still less after I saw Philip's animosity. "Les absens ont toujours tort," interrupted Laura; then, afraid of saying too much, she added, 'Come, Charlotte, it is very late. 'And I shall be the first to tell Amy! cried Charlotte. 'Good night, papa! good night, Charlie! She rushed up-stairs, afraid of being forestalled.
She evidently enjoyed the display of her skill in tormenting: every second letter was almost a declaration of breaking off the correspondence altogether; or, what was even worse, mingled with those menaces, there were from time to time allusions to my opinions, and quotations of my chance remarks, which, rather to my surprise, showed me that the proverb, "Les absens ont toujours tort," was true in more senses than one, and that the Frenchman occasionally lost ground by being fifty miles off.
Ah! she is in the sulks, and he is mortified. I know there's a French proverb 'Les absens ont toujours tort. But it is quite untrue; judicious absence is a weapon, and I must show you how and when to use it." "Mother, you are my best friend. What shall we do next?"
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