Author: Bruce Catton

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• Connie Willis (1)
  • IN: Lincoln's Dreams (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It may be that life is not man’s most precious possession, after all. Certainly men can be induced to give it away very freely at times, and the terms hardly seem to make sense unless there is something about the whole business that we don’t understand. Lives are spent for very insignificant things which benefit the dead not at all—a few rods of ground in a cornfield, for instance, or temporary ownership of a little hill or a piece of windy pasture; and now and then they are simply wasted outright, with nobody gaining anything at all.
    FROM: Mr. Lincoln’s Army, (1951), Book, US