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• The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.
• For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book…
• The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.
• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
• Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
• I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
• His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and…
• I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men…
• I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being…
• In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
• I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings…
• Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

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