“If I take a man into battle, my lord, i like to offer him a better than even chance that he'll march away with his skin intact. If I wanted to kill the buggers I'd just strangle them in their sleep. It's kinder.”

—  Bernard Cornwell

Captain Richard Sharpe, p. 88
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)

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