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Every student must be a gentleman.

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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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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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.
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To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
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A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.
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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.
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The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.
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All this has been my fault.
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What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations
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Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
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