"The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election."

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Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.53

Belle Boyd

#Southern Quotes #Election Quotes #States Quotes

“Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.”
“I am the cute one! She's just my sister.”
“Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.”
“Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.”
“A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2006). “Summer Breeze”, p.67, Penguin
“One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.”
“A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.”

Source : Miss Read (2002). “Gossip from Thrush Green”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.”

Source : The Questionnaire Interview, 2010.

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