"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Army, Challenge, Letters, Newspapers

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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

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"As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants."

Gustav Stresemann, German Politician

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"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

Barry Humphries, Australian Entertainer

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"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."

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"The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange."

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"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."

Stuart Symington, American Businessman

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"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."

Barney Oliver, American Scientist

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"The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army."

Robert Trout, American Journalist

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"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."

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"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."

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"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."

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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

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"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."

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"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."

Pain

"There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid."

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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

Change

"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

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"The present is the blocks with which we build."

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"The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one."

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