The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from w… — T. E. Lawrence

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

T. E. Lawrenced. 1935

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — Henry David Thoreau
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. — George Bernard Shaw
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T. E. Lawrence
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. — T. E. Lawrence
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. — T. E. Lawrence