Carolina QuotesWhy do you write in your diary at all," some one said to me, "if, as you say, you have to contradict every day what you wrote yesterday?" "Because I tell the tale as it is told to me. I write current rumor. I do not vouch for anything.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Carolinian
Source
Diary entry, Richmond, 26 August 1861; A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton, 1905)
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- book
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- A Diary from Dixie
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- 1861
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“Why do you write in your diary at all," some one said to me,…” Mary Boykin Chesnut. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-77D2537A36. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/77d2537a36
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