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John Sergeant Wise

"The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First."

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"The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First."

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Asa Don Brown

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Asa Don Brown

"Children are angels."

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Asa Don Brown

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

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Asa Don Brown

"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."

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Asa Don Brown

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

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Asa Don Brown

"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."

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Asa Don Brown

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

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Asa Don Brown

"A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship."

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Asa Don Brown

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."

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Asa Don Brown

"Children are holy angels."

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John Sergeant Wise
"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school."

Childhood

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John Sergeant Wise
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."

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John Sergeant Wise
"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service."

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John Sergeant Wise
"The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First."

Family

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John Sergeant Wise
"It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors."

Wealth

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John Sergeant Wise
"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them."

Man

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John Sergeant Wise
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."

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John Sergeant Wise
"In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia."

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John Sergeant Wise
"In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time."

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John Sergeant Wise
"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."

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