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Quote by Herman Melville
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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