“The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Your soul is the whole world”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain, but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“The Common Sense, is that which judges of things offered to it by the other senses.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; th' effect doth operate another way.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

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