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Author
1836 - 1870
3 quotes

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, an author (1836 - 1870), is quoted 3 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Bay Area, Law, San Francisco and Time.

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Fitz Hugh Ludlow / Author

To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow / Author

What we want, we have for our pains The promise that if we but wait Till the want has burned out of our brains, Every means shall be present to state; While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold, While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old, When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold, And everything comes too late-too late.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow / Author

Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent

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