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Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

“The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)

“The cloud was so dark that it needed all the bright lights that could be turned upon it. But for four years there was a contagion of nobility in the land, and the best blood North and South poured itself out a libation to propitiate the deities of Truth and Justice. The great sin of slavery was washed out, but at what a cost!”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)