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"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
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"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
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"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."
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"Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows."
"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."
"Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice."
"The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?"
"In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate."
"We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely."
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