If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They … - Corra May Harris

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You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Corra May Harris

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

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