England will pay ten thousand a year to a lawyer or a banker, but when she has splendid fellows like me who conquer empires and keep them for her, she only gives them just enough to keep their polo ponies.

— André Maurois Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) (1918)

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