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Woodrow Wilson Quotes: It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
         

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.


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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
         



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