I remember my mother&#39;s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

It was as if he were a single whole, grasped by her first glance at him, like some irreducible absolute, like an axiom not to be explained any further, as if she knew everything about him by direct perception, and what awaited her now was only the process of identifying her knowledge.

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.

All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Quotes by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Written By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Written By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Written By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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