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Separated from the rest of society by a life consisting (in peacetime) of fancydress, instruction and practice, games and boredom, organized on the assumption that their members at all levels are generally rather stupid and always expendable, held together by the increasingly anomalous values of bravery, honor, contempt for and suspicion of civilians, professional armies tend almost by definition to ideological eccentricity.
How to Plot Your Takeover Hobsbawm, E.J. 1969
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Superdog costume, £12.99, from Angels Fancy Dress fancydress.com.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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So while seamstresses working on Hugh Bonneville's size nine-and-a-half gloves gain all the plaudits, much of the money comes from its fancydress.com website, which sells a sort of tabloid version of its Hendon warehouse.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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So while seamstresses working on Hugh Bonneville's size nine-and-a-half gloves gain all the plaudits, much of the money comes from its fancydress.com website, which sells a sort of tabloid version of its Hendon warehouse.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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