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"There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe."
Exercise
"Every battalion has its marching songs."
Camaraderie
"I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared."
War
"There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being."
Being
"Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission."
Power
"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
Duty
"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill."
Luck
"A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town."
Home
"Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive."
Man
"The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast."
Provision
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