In honor of Veteran’s Day:
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton (English writer, theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist – thanks Wikipedia)
The same guy also wrote this gem:
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
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