“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.