“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop.”
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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.”
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