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"Nothing is normal in war. It is always an experiment to discover what will undo the last encounter's defenses and what will defend against the newest angle of attack. One creates the form of the other, and echoes back again in an endless spiral of sophistication and elegance. Conflict is the engine of excellence, and war is the distillation of conflict. It is the grand unfolding that ends in the embrace of eternity"

Hooray it's back

"We are for the most part more lovely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers." (112)

"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry." (76-77)

"To my astonishment I was informed on leaving college that I had studied navigation!-why, if I had taken one turn down the harbor I should have known more about it." (42)

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." (75)

"No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself" (38

I haven't really had an urge to listen to this much lol.

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust." (30)

Reading on Kindle. Love Stu

Oopsy not sure why I never had this book in my currently reading. It's been a second since I've read this, and I might go back to the audiobooks once I finish this one.

Very good so far!

This book maketh me sad sometimes