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Unvanquished: How Confederate Women Survived the Civil War

by Pippa Pralen

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“it would be sheer cruelty to afflict them with excessive leisure.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“the first time since the U.S. Civil War that an American general had surrendered. The Japanese seemed unstoppable.”
― Jeff Langholz, Hold Strong: A World War II Novel about Freedom, Forgiveness, and the True Story of the Deadliest Accident in U.S. Military History

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“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself,”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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