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"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe."
"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."
"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."
"I've never cheated on a lover. I'm faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone's feelings. Every time.Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she'd ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she'd given birth to Gwen's grandmother."
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"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."
"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."
"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."
"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
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