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• Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of…
• And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will…
• The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
• Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude…
• Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
• So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for…
• Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
• Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open…
• Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.
• The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
• Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

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