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  • I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

    Heart   Suffering   Gold  
  • The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

    Meals   Rooms   Cleaning  
  • We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

    Heart   Historical   Gold  
  • Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

    Wall   Details   Able  
  • He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

    Travel   Dark   Night  
    "History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes, Vol. 2". Book by William Hickling Prescott, J.B. Lippincott - Company, p. 346, 1877.
  • It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

    War   Glimpse   Firsts  
  • The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

  • An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.

    Cities   Water   Purpose  
  • Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

    War   Firsts   Ifs  
  • So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

    Children   War   Heart  
  • For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.

    Past   Long   Victory  
  • Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

    War   Idols   Honor  
  • There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

    Church   Towers   Body  
  • They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

    War   Arrows   Stones  
  • Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

    "July 7, 1550: Europeans Discover Chocolate" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. July 7, 2010.
  • What men in all the world have shown such daring?

    Men   World   Daring  
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