31 Quotes by Mary Boykin Chesnut


  • Author Mary Boykin Chesnut
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    We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them. If, when water is thrown on them they do not sizz, they won’t do; their patriotism is too cool.

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  • Author Mary Boykin Chesnut
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    I do not write often now – not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

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