Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die.

The Charge of the Light Brigade. Stanza 2.

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them.

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Into the jaws of death,[628:1]

Into the mouth of hell

Rode the six hundred.