“Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Lucifer in Starlight, l. 13-14.
“I grinned. “The unwritten law of all armies, Captain. The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It’s the mortar holding an army together.””
Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 5, “Harden” (p. 138)
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