Poets are simply people who see things two ways. Like children, as if they had never seen them before. Like old men, as if they would never see them … - James A. Michener

The abuses stemmed from the fact that the owners of the railroads never saw themselves as servants to an expanding nation; they were men trying to squeeze the last penny of profit from a good thing, and to accomplish this, they subverted legislatures, perverted economic law and persecuted anyone who tried to hold them to a more honest discharge of their duties.

Dutch smugglers kept slipping in more slaves from Africa. There were two developments which worried thoughtful men in both Barbados and England: with the slow depletion of the soil, it became more difficult each year to grow the basic crops, tobacco being especially destructive

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.