"No man surely has so short a memory…" — Rebecca Harding Davis
"No man surely has so short a memory as the American."
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Rebecca Harding Davis
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28 Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to…
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or…
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests…
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War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
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Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint…
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TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could…
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man…
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests…
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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call…
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But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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