Famous quotes containing the words military, merit and/or order:
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Though learned, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere;
Modestly bold, and humanly severe:
Who to a friend his faults can freely show,
And gladly praise the merit of a foe?”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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