"Our young people have come to look upon……" — Rebecca Harding Davis
"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people."
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28 Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis
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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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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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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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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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No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
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