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1 " O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. "
― Rudyard Kipling , The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
2 " ...and if somehow my conduct ain't all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints.. From 'Tommy "
3 " Gentlemen-rankers out on the spreeDamned from here to Eternity,God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah! "
4 " And the first rude sketch that the world has seenwas joy to his mighty heart,Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art? "
