• That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910
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That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. by : Mark Twain

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