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"It is unbecoming to a soldier, all this book-learning."

— Michael Shaara The Killer Angels (1974)

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"General Meade has his son as adjutant."
"That's different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield."

The Killer Angels (1974)

They are volunteers: last of the great volunteer armies, for the draft is beginning that summer in the North. They have lost faith in their leaders but not in themselves.

The Killer Angels (1974)

The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

The Killer Angels (1974)

"It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time."

The Killer Angels (1974)

Oh, by the way, there's a story going around, do you know? They say that General Lee was asleep, and the army was marching by, and fifteen thousand men went by on tiptoe so as not to wake him.

The Killer Angels (1974)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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