To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. - Charles Edward Montague
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
- Charles Edward Montague
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line. - Charles Edward Montague
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains o… - Charles Edward Montague
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains o…
If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it. - Charles Edward Montague
If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them. - Charles Edward Montague
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.
Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth. - Charles Edward Montague
Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.
War hath no fury like a non-combatant. - Charles Edward Montague
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used… - Charles Edward Montague
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used…
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the l… - Charles Edward Montague
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the l…
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