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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the read more
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
History is a vast early warning system.
History is a vast early warning system.
To many fame comes too late.
To many fame comes too late.
While we read history we make history.
While we read history we make history.
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they read more
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.