The officer of to-day has seen active service, it's true but as a matter of fact it is quite sufficient in war to have good health and no more imagination than a fish. It is in peace-time that one ought to judge a soldier.

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

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