Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 15
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The title is taken from a poem by the 16th-century English dramatist George Peele.
One of the alternative endings to the novel, published in A Farewell to Arms The Special Edition.
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“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
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“I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 27
Context: I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
'All right. I'll grow one. I'll start now this minute. It's a good idea. It will give me something to do.'
Catherine and Henry discussing whether he should grow a beard, in Ch. 38
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