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Mary Boykin Chesnut [1823-1886] American
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Mary Boykin Chesnut, was a South Carolina author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle." 

Forgiveness, Men, Power



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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world. Men, Power
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Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. Forgiveness
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Is anything worth it?
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
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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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I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
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Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
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She died praying that she might die.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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I am always on the women's side.
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