Peter John Sullivan (March 15, 1821 Cork, Ireland - March 2, 1883 Cincinnati, Ohio) was an Irish-American soldier and lawyer, who became United States Ambassador to Colombia.
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“A man’s idea in a card game is war—cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”
—Anne Sullivan (1866–1936)