Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or officers:
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oaks, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
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