"Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge."

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All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed.  Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet.  When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.

— Steven Erikson