| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35257 |
| QUOTATION: | Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials—justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties— |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?), U.S. housewife. Wartime Washington, letter dated August 6, 1864 (1991).
Born in Kentucky, Lee later lived in Maryland and in Washington, D.C., with her husband and child. Her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, was a Union naval commander in the Civil War, and this was written in a letter to him. |
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