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Quotation from Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

“Later I was reduced almost to the point of death, and it became impossible for me to attend to anything for weeks”

Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs, Preface

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Grant's only direct reference in the text to the cancer that killed him shortly after completion.

Citation: "Later I was reduced almost to the point of death, and it became impossible for me to attend to anything for weeks" — Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, Preface. (id personal-memoirs-q1)

Portrait: Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Public domain.

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