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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

— T. E. Lawrence

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Do not try to do too much with your own hands.

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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

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Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.

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