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The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

Edward Gibbon
Discipline, Soldier, Patient
Edward Gibbon (2013). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)”, p.894, Modern Library
The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.