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• Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
• War is the only game in which both sides lose.
• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from…
• Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
• Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling…
• Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
• Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
• For love is heaven and heaven is love.
• Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
• God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
• I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights…

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