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• Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
• Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
• An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
• I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
• Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and…
• When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in…
• Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
• Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader…
• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for…
• Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

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