“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer.”
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
“His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: “I’m fighting because you’re down here.”7”
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
“Not surprisingly, South Carolina acted first. “There is nothing in all the dark caves of human passion so cruel and deadly as the hatred the South Carolinians profess for the Yankees.” wrote the correspondent of the London Times from Charleston. The enmity of Greek for Turk was child’s play “compared to the animosity evinced by the ‘gentry’ of South Carolina for the ‘rabble of the North.’ … The State of South Carolina was,’ I am”
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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