Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.
Notes from Wikiquote
Ibid., p. 218
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.
Was it worthwhile?
Everything is worthwhile
if the soul is not small.
Ah, to be you while being I!
To have your glad unconsciousness
And be conscious of it!
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