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    “On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.”
    —Oliver Cromwell’s Soldiers. Address, 1647, to the English Parliament. “Humble Representation.”

    “The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “He who eats alone chokes alone.”
    —Arab proverb, quoted in H.L. Mencken’s Dictionary of Quotations (1942)