“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?