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“We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.”

Heart War Hate Left History Alive Hero Filled Faults Civil War Battlefields American Civil War Starks Stunned Remnants Brotherly

Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut

“Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.”

Left History Groups Humour Kings Direct Army Regard South British Britain Crowns Thrones Senior Heirs Pretender

Author:David Frum

“His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness. But when they lost even the semblance of those virtues which were derived from their ancient freedom, the simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of the courts of Asia.”

Form Lost Left History Virtue Greatness Pride Court Simplicity Ancient East Vanity Manners Asia Ceremony Manly Roman Empire Semblance Ostentatious

Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.”

“What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.”

Men Doe Lost Left Sides Differences History Hell Good Man Both Sides

Book:Behan Complete Plays

Source: Behan Complete Plays

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

Men Wisdom Remember Names Left Memories History Struggle Ease

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”

“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”

World Light Left History Sun Sea Curiosity Following Ships World History Old World Sailing And The Sea Medieval War Sailing Ships

Author:Christopher Columbus