He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

You are way too grown when you stop looking at yourself like others

He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?"  I stared at him. He had to be kidding.

As the Reverend Robert Barnwell emphasized in an address to the ladies of Charleston, "WITHOUT YOU, THIS WAR COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON, FOR THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT PREPARED TO MEET ALL THAT WAS THROWN UPON IT.

Written By Drew Gilpin Faust

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