Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.
That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.
Orley Farm
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That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.
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