"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."

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"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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Harry S. Truman, American President

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."

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"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."

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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

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"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

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"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

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"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."

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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."

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