Whenever you throw away what’s right for what’s convenient, you end up losing both.
Quotes from Southern Victory — Harry Turtledove
born 1949 United States
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Southern Victory (1997)
Scipio would sooner have gone on without the revolution than the other way around.
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War would have been a much simpler, easier business with politics out of the mix.
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You couldn’t find an answer if you didn’t know you should be asking the question.
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The ability to see what is, sir, is essential for the leader of a great nation.
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Only thing worse than fighting a war and winning is fighting a war and losing.
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Southern Victory (1997)
Falling asleep in a corset was impressive proof of what exhaustion could do.
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Southern Victory (1997)
You can only bend the long arm of coincidence so far before you break it.
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The Mormons habitually dissembled about their plural marriages.
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The bullet doesn’t care who shot it, only where it’s going.
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They eyed each other in perfect mutual incomprehension.
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Whites are so mystified, they put race ahead of class.
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Sometimes convenience counted for more than ideology.
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Being sure wasn’t the same thing as being right.
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Had optimism run that far ahead of common sense?
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Never can tell with this, though. That there man taught the Mississippi to be twisty.
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Southern Victory (1997)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harry Turtledove (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.