No normal man who has smelled and associated with death ever wants to see any more of it. In fact, the only men who are even going to want to bloody noses in a fist fight after this war will be those who want people to think they were tough combat men, when they weren’t. The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
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One day you are an apprentice and everybody’s pet; the next you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 10 (1963)
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (10 Apr 1778)
In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
