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“Tutors are usually shaggy, ill-groomed junior dons who smoke and drink to excess and never leave their rooms except for illicit sexual liaisons or to replenish their stocks of tobacco and spirits. A”
― Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel

“Colonel L., in whose eyes I was a first-rate Riot Acter or, worse, an intellectual—in his phrase, “someone who reads books”—the most damning appraisal that could be made of a junior lieutenant.”
― Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel

“What appeared as unendurable hardship to soldiers of other nationalities produced a species of exhilaration in our lads, raised on a diet of Kipling and institutional porridge. Some”
― Steven Pressfield, Killing Rommel

“she is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan