"In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time."

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Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.50, Anza Publishing

John Sergeant Wise

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“I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.”
“Football is not a job, but my best therapy”
“I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the same time, I don't want to be the 40-year-old DJ in the club.”

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“Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.”
“I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us”
“If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.”
“No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.”

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“I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.”

Source : ""Kimberly Caldwell Reveals Her Style Secrets and Her Pick for American Idol Winner". Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2009.

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