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If someone comes to me a few years from now and asks me what I did
in the great war, I shall say 'I helped to clean out the latrine at
Leige barracks.' And it is extremely probable that my interlocutor's
reply will be: 'I thought as much,' for even now you can still get
an occasional whiff, if the wind is in the right direction.

As the fellow said, You can break, you may shatter the vase if you will,
but the scent of roses will cling to it still.

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