"Jan 1899 You must aim at the Staff College, but for the love of God never become a professional Staff Officer. Never lose touch with the troops. Remember that you serve the troops and it is the troops who matter. They are the folk who win victories, take care of your men and they will never let you down."

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Source : Richard Meinertzhagen (1964). “Diary of a Black Sheep”, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd 1964

Richard Meinertzhagen

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“That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.”
“Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold (1860). “The Brownrigg Papers”, p.394
“Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time.”
“The harmonica is a great instrument.”
“Don't tell me words don't matter,”

Source : "Deval Patrick: Massachusetts' Idealist-in-Chief" by Sheryl Huggins Salomon, www.theroot.com. April 20, 2011.
“Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.”
“I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.”
“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”

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