Charles Edward Montague
Journalist
1867-01-01
Quotes by Charles Edward Montague
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To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
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The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
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War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.
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