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Don't know which line I like better...

One hero's wife, on why she continued reading a book: "I figured he would go up there and step on somebody’s neck, and that would be the end of it. I knew how that situation would end. I didn’t know how the book would end.”

The other heroic one, asked by the first if he was up to the fight: ‘Retired captain. USMC.’

The Anchoress has a roundup.

The Laconic style, beloved of the Spartans: never waste a word.