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“The children were not pleased with the way the story came out,” he admitted in his diary, but he hoped that they would come to “appreciate stories that [do not] come out well, for they are very much like a good deal of life.”
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“Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration.”
― One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
― One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
“An appalling double tragedy overshadowed the joy that should have welcomed Alice Lee Roosevelt's entrance to the world on February 12, 1884.”
― Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
― Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
“She had a cheerful countenance, and that sometimes disguised her habit of looking on the world with what she called “detached malevolence.”
― Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
― Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
“The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.”
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
“One day during the siege, Grant was observed walking the outer line when he encountered a mule-team driver beating and cursing one of the mules. He ordered the man to stop. The animal’s abuser, seeing a man with a blouse and no sign of rank, turned and began to swear at him. Grant had the man arrested and brought to his headquarters. Only then did the mule driver realize whom he had insulted. The man was ordered to be tied up by his thumbs. When released, the contrite soldier apologized for his language, telling Grant he did not know to whom he was speaking. Grant explained that he had punished the soldier not because of what he’d said to his commanding general: “I could defend myself, but the mule could not.”
― American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
― American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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