Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Mary Boykin Chesnut:

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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Is anything worth it?
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-boykin-chesnut-quotes/#6940fb6e

I am always on the women's side.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-boykin-chesnut-quotes/#9fc02b85

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-boykin-chesnut-quotes/#356a9641

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-boykin-chesnut-quotes/#1f8847ed

She died praying that she might die.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-boykin-chesnut-quotes/#42963f3c

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-boykin-chesnut-quotes/#d30ad1de

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
~Mary Boykin Chesnut


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-boykin-chesnut-quotes/#d8c14963

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