Books: Murder Will Out

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Never actually do so, despite your most valiant efforts.

In the end, though, Masaryk bore too much responsibility and was too aristocratic to play the lowly Schweik for long. Though it was not his fault, he failed tragically to live up to Schweik's cardinal rule: "Always try to outlive the enemy; dying will get you nowhere."

* "He had a very great fear of pain. He had quantities of sedatives and sleeping drugs sufficient to commit suicide."

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