5 Quotes by John C. Waugh

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    Let us cross over the river,” he said quietly, “and rest under the shade of the trees.

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    It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.

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    Why is Old Jack a better general than Moses?” was the question they liked to ask. “Because it took Moses forty years to lead the Israelites through the wilderness,” the answer went, “and Old Jack would have double-quicked them through in three days.”10.

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    Hill gave her a ring in which were etched the words “Je t’aime.” As Sylvanus Thayer, the father of West Point, had said so long ago, all the important things are written in French.

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    Many rebel soldiers that night would sleep on their muskets and question the value of a victory that had cost them Stonewall Jackson.

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