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He’d got good at the bureaucratic infighting, too, the sort of quiet warfare that measured itself as much by things prevented as by those accomplished.
Southern Victory (1997)
“‘The Confederate state must make up for what everyone else has neglected in this field. It must set race at the center of all life. It must take care to keep itself pure.’”
Southern Victory (1997)
The Book of Mormon is no more the word of God than is an advertising circular for stomach powders.
Southern Victory (1997)
I’ve always tried to be a rational man. I don’t have much use for the idea of miracles. Things are what they are, that’s all.
Southern Victory (1997)
Order did not want to be born; chaos wasn’t ready to die.
Southern Victory (1997)
A man who expended power on a whim was a fool.
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When you were fifteen, you knew everything always turned out fine in the end. Arthur McGregor was a good deal past twice fifteen. He knew how foolish you were at that age.
Southern Victory (1997)
Chester wasn’t about to commit the sin of optimism. Justifiably or not, he feared it would jinx everything.
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Down underneath, there wasn’t much difference between people and animals. War brought that out all kinds of ways.
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The featured entrée with something called Swiss steak. It struck him as a good reason for emigrating from Switzerland.
Southern Victory (1997)
Of all the sins in this world, which is more unforgivable than the sin of not having enough money? None I can think of.
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When three men plot, one is a fool and two are government spies.
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Some people had a vested interest in trouble. If it looked as if calm threatened to break out, people like that would do anything they could to thwart it.
Southern Victory (1997)
“Did anybody know what a nasty war this would be before they went and started it?”
“Does anybody ever?”
Southern Victory (1997)
Down near the Florida border, Georgia could give South Carolina lessons in heat and humidity.
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The North American air war struck Potter as a duel with machine guns at a pace and a half.
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The difference between what you counted on and what you got explained why so many people had unhappy marriages.
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They weren't entering a different country, but they were coming into a different world.
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Like other lower forms of life, second lieutenants were too dumb to know better.
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Spend all your time thinkin’ ’bout tomorrow, you ain’t gonna live to git there.
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