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Men Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis
- It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it…
- We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or…
- It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
- No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
- Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
- I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern…
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