We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
Edith Sitwell
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"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the
truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."
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