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They are rough and their language gets coarse because they live a life stripped of convention and niceties.
Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other.

— Bill Mauldin Up Front (1945)

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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

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