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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. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#beneficent #come #courage #deity #develops

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. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

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

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#chief #grown #handling #increase #life

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#beautiful #cost #deal #diamonds #divorce

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. ↗

— Greg Lake

#difficult #difficult things #dignity #making #most

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#house #i #really #talent #welcome

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#least #sides #some #trial #truth

I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#character #cope #costume #difficult #difficulty

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#bank #disability #etc #fitting #found