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“Books do furnish a room.”
― Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
― Alan Clark

“The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.”
― Ulysses S. Grant

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult”
― Carl Von Clausewitz

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, “He who is content.”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.”
― Robert E. Lee

“Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the “dog tag” in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier bearing his name, regiment, and place of residence.”
― Geoffrey Wawro, The Franco-Prussian War

“On most of the occasions when I visited the Ufford, halls and reception rooms were so utterly deserted that the interior might almost have been Uncle Giles's private residence. Had he been a rich bachelor, instead of a poor one, he would probably have lived in a house of just that sort: bare: anonymous: old-fashioned: draughty: with heavy mahogany cabinets and sideboards spaced out at intervals in passages and on landings; nothing that could possibly commit him to any specific opinion, beyond general disapproval of the way the world was run.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.”
― Bill Moyers

“I still live.”
― edgar rice burroughs, John Carter of Mars