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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference. ↗

— Stephen Evans

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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. ↗

— Walker Evans

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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. ↗

— William M. Evarts

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God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence. ↗

— Edward Everett

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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. ↗

— Edward Everett

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I will not refuse to do something that I can do. ↗

— Edward Everett

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In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction. ↗

— Edward Everett

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That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. ↗

— Edward Everett

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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy. ↗

— Edward Everett

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