Ocupation: Novelist
Life: May 25, 1803 - January 18, 1873
Birthday: May 25
Death: January 18
Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
topic: Names, Soldier, Honor, Old Soldiers, Battered