Fate
There is no record of Washington and her sister galleys after the British captured Manhattan Island late in the summer.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“I have, as when the sun doth light a storm,
Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile;
But sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It seems our fate to be incorrect ... and in our incorrectness stand.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)