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“There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.”

Hands Beautiful Loses Gains Method Soldier Noses Lions Delicate Artificial Traveler Limbs

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire.”

Men Firsts Clear Fire Danger Gains Soldier Resolution Engagement Limbs Assured Back Again Tents Dead Man Gallant

Author:Laurence Sterne

“All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it; and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.”

World States Church Land Gay Gains Soldier Credit Titles Hypocrisy Live By Camps Scorn Beggar Seeming Clergy Practise Wags Courtiers

Book:The Waverley novels. 25 vols.

Source: The Waverley novels. 25 vols.

“Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.”

Choices Loss Virtue Ambition Gains Soldier

Book:Plays of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays of William Shakespeare

“It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.”

Gains Unions Soldier Painful Territory Soviet Elites Soviet Union Afghan

Author:Sergei Ivanov

“At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country’s leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.”

Made Country Action Decision Leader Grace Gains Treats Soldier Israel Terrorist Celebrate Release

Author:Jonathan S. Tobin

“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.”

Community Courage Gains Soldier Decline

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton