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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."

"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."

"To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better."
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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."


"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."


"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."


"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."


"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."


"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."


"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."


"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
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