Quotes with legion

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• A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

  Source: Bingen on the Rhine l. 1 (1850)

  ― Caroline Norton
   
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• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  ― André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unthinkable
• distinction
• conferred
• comrade
• without
• however

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