I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

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Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

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The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

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The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

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