
Quote 4: "The wisest were just the poor and simple people. Quote 3: "One could sit like this forever." Chapter 1, pg. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language." Chapter 1, pg. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily.

Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. Quote 2: "The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines.

Quote 1: "The leader of our group, shrewd, cunning, and hard-bitten, forty years of age, with a face of the soil, blue eyes, bent shoulders, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food, and soft jobs." Chapter 1, pg.
