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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.
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I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.
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The devil's name is dullness.
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Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.
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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
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All this has been my fault.
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