"... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement."
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"This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office."
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"Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?"
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"I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial."
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"I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later."
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"When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength."
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"There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain."
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"I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something."
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"Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward"
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"I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand."
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"God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best."
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"It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance."
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"I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once."
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"Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure"."
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"For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air."
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"It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled."
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"What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still."
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"Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well."
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"I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods."
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"Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason."
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