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There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
Robert E. Lee
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Robert E. Lee
Age: 63 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 19
Died: 1870
Died: October 12
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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
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All this has been my fault.
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There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.
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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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