Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
... life is short and the world is wide
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
Christ asked for everything he got.
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.