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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour."

"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

"His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole.""
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