Duke of Wellingtons Regiment/world War I 1914-1918

Famous quotes containing the words duke of, duke, regiment, world and/or war:

    That very knowing,
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    Easygoing
    Paladin,
    The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
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    I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
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    What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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    Six years of such small preoccupations!
    Six years of shuttling in and out of this place!
    O my hunger! My hunger!
    I could have gone around the world twice
    or had new children all boys.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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