“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Variant: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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