"Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true."

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Source : Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

Ulysses S. Grant

#War Quotes #Military Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.”
“I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time”
“Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.”
“If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.”
“It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.”
“I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.”
“The machine invades me all day.”
“Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.”

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