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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."

"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
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"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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"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."

"In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense."

"The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke."
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