"This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural."
"There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions."
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Source: Rival Caesars. Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.
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