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Daniel H. Hill

"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."

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"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."

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"We must all raise war against ignorance."

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"In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack."

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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."

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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."

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"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."

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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"

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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."

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"Percy hefted a bronze grenade. 'I hope you labelled these right.' He yelled, 'Die, Romans!' and lobbed the grenade over the wall."

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Amber Hurdle

"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."

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"Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours."

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"Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia."
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"Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington."
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"Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him."
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"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."
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"Let our children be taught love love love."
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"Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood."
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"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
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"Train our children to love God."
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."
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