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"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
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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."

"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."

"Military police is very timely for our army."

"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

"We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army."
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"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
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"I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men."

"As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'"

"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'."
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