“ It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ”
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“ A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France. ”
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“ When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living. ”
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“ When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living. ”
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“ It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle. ”
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“ During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front. ”
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“ But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. ”
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“ It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same. ”
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“ It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same. ”
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“ It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ”
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“ John Wood stood in front of them, and held his revolver, and threatened to shoot the first man who bayoneted these Germans who had surrendered. ”
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“ It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ”
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“ It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same. ”
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“ It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ”
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“ We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead. ”
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“ John Wood stood in front of them, and held his revolver, and threatened to shoot the first man who bayoneted these Germans who had surrendered. ”
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“ All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me. ”
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“ John Wood stood in front of them, and held his revolver, and threatened to shoot the first man who bayoneted these Germans who had surrendered. ”
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