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John Ruskin Quotes: The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
         

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.


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