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• It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee [1862]
• Strike the tent. -- Robert E[dward] Lee, 12 October 1870
• The education of a man is never completed until he dies. -- Robert E. Lee
• Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language.
  You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less....
• Just pick up the phone and give modem connect sounds.
  Well you said we should get more lines so we don't have voice lines....
• I wanted all my ducks in a row so if we did get into a posture we could pretty much slam-dunk this thing and put it to bed.
  -- Lee Cooke, mayor of Austin, TX, abusing cliche...
• Homer: All right, Marge, I'll get you your nanny. And to pay for it, I'll give up the Civil War re-creation society I love so much.
  [at Moe's, everyone, including Moe, is dressed like 1800s military generals] Moe...
• Many a man's done a terrible thing just to get baby a shiny diamond ring. -- Robert Hunte