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General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly,…
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He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge.…
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I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
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No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the…
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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field.…
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I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln…
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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long…
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The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or…
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He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in…
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There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic…
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Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike…
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not…
— Aristotle
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A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour,…
— David Hume
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents…
— James Dean
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
— Victor Hugo
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
— Franz Kafka
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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the…
— Bruno Schulz
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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great…
— Asa Gray
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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long…
— Henry Villard
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Since I'm only 24 years old, guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as any other young man…
— James Dean
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