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I Think Its A Sickness To Grieve Too Much For Those Who Never Cared A Fig For You.

... People Are Always Turning Out To Be Tougher Than I Think They Are.

Call Listened With Amusement--not That The Incident Hadn't Been Terrible. Being Decapitated Was A Grisly Fate, Whether You Were A Yankee Or Not. But Then, Amusing Things Happened In Battle, As They Did In The Rest Of Life. Some Of The Funniest Things He Had Ever Witnessed Had Occurred During Battles. He Had Always Found It More Satisfying To Laugh On A Battlefield Than Anywhere Else, For If You Lived To Laugh On A Battlefield, You Could Feel You Had Earned The Laugh. But If You Just Laughed In A Saloon, Or At A Social, The Laugh Didn't Reach Deep.

Self-parody Is The First Portent Of Age.

But The English Are Different, And They Don't Know How To Be Other Than Different.