When i'm lying in bed awake at night, thinking of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings, there are many a people that come waltzing through my mind and at this midnight hour i wonder if I'M dancing in anyone else's mind.
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GRANT No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your w... ULYSSES S. GRANT Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. ULYSSES S. GRANT Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, a... ULYSSES S. GRANT Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t... ULYSSES S. GRANT Let us have peace. ULYSSES S. GRANT I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't... ULYSSES S. GRANT Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. ULYSSES S. GRANT If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. ULYSSES S. GRANT I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't. ULYSSES S. GRANT My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. ULYSSES S. GRANT How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. V. S. PRITCHETT Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. V. S. PRITCHETT If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. V. S. NAIPAUL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ... V. S. NAIPAUL The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. V. S. NAIPAUL