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Famous quotes containing the words irish, confederate and/or wars:

    “Concurring hands divide

    flax for damask
    that when bleached by Irish weather
    has the silvered chamois-leather
    water-tightness of a
    skin.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “The soger frae the wars returns,
    The sailor frae the main,
    But I hae parted frae my Love,
    Never to meet again, my dear,
    Never to meet again.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)