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"Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."
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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."
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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."
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"Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts."
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."
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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
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"Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads."
Men
"We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it."
Men
"The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear."
Thought
"Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors."
Wife
"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun."
Battle
"I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon."
Death
"Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened."
Life
"Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near."
Genius
"IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused."
War
"The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure."
War
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