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“To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. I was unable to take the professional view that…

— T.E. Lawrence

“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour.…

— T.E. Lawrence

“A weariness of the desert was the living always in company, each of the party hearing all that was said and seeing all that…

— T.E. Lawrence

“We cut three telegraph wires, and fastened the free ends to the saddles of six riding-camels of the Howeitat. The astonished team struggled far…

— T.E. Lawrence

“We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we…

— T.E. Lawrence

“Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and realized that…

— T.E. Lawrence

“The fringes of their deserts were strewn with broken faiths.”

— T.E. Lawrence

“Afterwards the greedy Howeitat saw more oryx in the distance and went after the beasts, who foolishly ran a little; then stood still and…

— T.E. Lawrence

“Learn all you can… Get to know their families, clans and tribes, friends and enemies, wells, hills and roads. Do all this by listening…

— T.E. Lawrence

“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.”

— T.E. Lawrence

“Something hurtful to my pride, disagreeable, rose at the sight of these lower forms of life. Their existence struck a servile reflection upon our…

— T.E. Lawrence

“In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were…

— T.E. Lawrence