“How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets?…How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?”
War is a racket (1935)
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Letter (1811-05-31) referring to the Peninsular War [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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“If “media” is the plural of “medium” the question is: how many of them are fraudulent?”
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 17 (p. 57; chapter title)
Source: The Society of Mind (1987), Ch.1
“Oh! how many actions, how many fabulous exploits
Remain without glory in the midst of the night.”
Ô combien d’actions, combien d’exploits célèbres
Sont demeurés sans gloire au milieu des ténèbres.
Don Rodrigue, act IV, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)