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Mary Boykin Chesnut Inspirational Quotes (10)

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Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe
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Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
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Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
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We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
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She died praying that she might die.
Mary Boykin Chesnut