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“Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?"
"I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.”
― The Song of Achilles
"I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.”
― The Song of Achilles
“have added”
― Clear and Present Danger
― Clear and Present Danger
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.”
― Nineteen Minutes
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.”
― Nineteen Minutes
“Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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