It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
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I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum . . . . I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours . . . instillers of stodginess.
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