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She hated the calendar, hated the mirror and what it showed her every morning. A handsome woman, that’s what you are. She would almost rather have been ugly. Then she wouldn’t have to remember the beauty she had been not so long ago.

— Harry Turtledove Southern Victory (1997)

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I’ll tell you, though, this whole business of war would be a hell of a lot more fun if you didn’t get shot.

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The Confederate States had been founded on the principle that change was a bad idea.

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The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.

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A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to.

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