“"Sensible thing to do, is for us to bugger off out of here and got to bed." "Sensible thing to do, is get out the bloody army and die in bed." "But that's not why we joined, is it?" "Speak for yourself, sir. I just joined to get a square meal. Getting killed wasn't really part of the idea at all."”

—  Bernard Cornwell

Captain Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Patrick Harper, p. 187
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)

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