Sunday 30 October 2011

Reading


The expression of one's thoughts and feelings
Will do more to educate and relieve the mind
Than any amount of reading

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The result of other people's thoughts should act on us but as a suggestion
As a stimulant of one's own

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One's attitude should be both critical and sceptical from the outset
And
Extremes should be avoided

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No one is completely right
No one is completely wrong

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Above all

Is misunderstanding

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From the notebook of 2nd/Lt Robin Blacker
Aged 18yrs
Coldstream Guards
France 1915
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3 weeks prior to being killed in action at the battle of Loos

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Acknowledgments to "Have you forgotten yet?"
The First World War Memoirs of C P Blacker MC, GM