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It was part of your religion to hate the British.

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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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You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

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Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

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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 who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 24th, 1831

Died: September 29th, 1910

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