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"Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place."
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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."
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"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."
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"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
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"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."
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"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."
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"I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders."
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"I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command."
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"It is too late; now I wish I could live."
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"Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place."
Enemy

"I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working."
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"If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops."
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"We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold."
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"During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none."
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