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181 " Your silence cuts me deeper than the sharpest rebuke."He was wrong. My words would cut him deeper, I knew..... But we weren't young comrades amongst a tangle of saplings at the start of our journey any longer; we were grizzled veterans standing atop the rotting fruit of our long struggle. "
― Stephanie Dray , America's First Daughter
182 " The more you learn, the more I love you. Lose no moment in improving your head, nor any opportunity of exercising your heart in benevolence. Your "
183 " becoming. "
― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
184 " Madam, the sight of you makes my heart sing with pride and joy. My vision blurred with tears. My heart sings in echo...How could I forget, General? It is emblazened on my soul "
185 " Whatever be the complexions of the enslaved, it does not, in my opinion, alter the complexion of the crime the enslaver commits. A crime much blacker than any African face.Its a matter of great anxiety and concern to find this trade is sometimes carried on under the flag of liberty, our dear and noble stripes, to which virtue and glory have been constant standard-bearers. "
186 " ......it would be as much a grief to me as shoveling dirt over your grave. And I'd pray for someone to soon shovel dirt over mine. "
187 " No one is born a hero; it’s something you have to find inside yourself. Once upon a time, even Lafayette was just a boy like you. "
― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette
188 " There's enough warmth of heart between us to live in harmony, Tom. But upon such subjects as we cannot agree, we must be silent. "
189 " My father was said to be “a swindler begot by a mulatto upon a half-breed Indian squaw.” President Adams was said to be a hermaphrodite "
190 " I, too, fear the revolution’s fruits will be blasted by the violence of rash or unprincipled men motivated by vindictive and selfish passions. So we must set the example and be kind to our neighbors. "
191 " Whatever be the complexion of the enslaved, it does not, in my opinion, alter the complexion of the crime the enslaver commits. A crime much blacker than any African face. "
192 " But Tom thought it was more than that. “It isn’t healthful the way you hold your feelings in, and push them down,” he said, as if I’d somehow reached the limit of emotions my body would allow me to suppress. "
193 " This isn't his home anymore. And it's not yours either. It's a set of chains.... His words..recall to me a vivid memory of my childhood and a rider who came up this mountain to warn: Leave Monticello now or find yourself in chains. "
194 " Cheer yourself with the assurance of never more being separated after the war. "
195 " Now, madame, I must go home, because guests, like fish, begin to stink after three days, and I have been here eight years! "
196 " So I dared not believe my husband "
197 " No wonder marriage required a vow before God and witnesses. It was no easy thing. And yet, the struggles somehow made me cherish it more. "
198 " There is only one secret to anything,” Dolley asserted. “And that’s the power we all have in forming our own destinies. "
199 " Agrippa may seem simple,” I protested, “but there’s a genius about him and not just with his military tactics. Have you seen his projects? The roads, the aqueducts, and the buildings! He can most certainly read. "
― Stephanie Dray , Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #1)
200 " Octavia may have shared in common their love for the emperor, or perhaps their dependence upon him, but their unity only ran so deep. They were not friends or companions by choice, but bitter rivals. "