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

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"A lazy person will never grow wealthy."

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"If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest."

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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."

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"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."

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"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

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"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."

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"Much effort, much prosperity."

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"God needs to bless the works of our hands, but you still need to do some work for God to bless it."

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"That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President."
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"However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children."
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"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond."
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"THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died."
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"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
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"Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today."
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"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school."
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"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia."
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"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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