Siege of Petersburg/first Deep Bottom July 27-29

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    “One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
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    “One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows no deep feelings of inadequacy or longing.”
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    “There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.”
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    “All the experts here ... say “There will be no war.” They said the same thing all through July 1914.... In those days I believed the experts. Today I have my tongue in my cheek. This does not mean I am become cynical; but as President I have to be ready just like a Fire Department!”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)