"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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Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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“In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.”
“Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who have nothing to earn yet.”

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“I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2011). “The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Jewel of the East, Vexation of the West, and Pearl of the South China Sea”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.”
“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.”
“If you love animals, don't eat them.”
“Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.”

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“Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.”

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