War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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History is the unfolding of miscalculation.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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