| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 27363 |
| QUOTATION: | Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. II, p. 272, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (May 20, 1862).
This resolution was made after he was “out of sorts” on a long, hot march and broken in the heat of battle. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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