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“ Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered authority the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction, the backboard which returned all the insults he threw at it. ”

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Never say you are five feet nine whenyou are five feet eight and a half was the first one I encountered.Another was, Always say some prayers at night because it might turnout that there is a God.

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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

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Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

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I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

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