"That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories."
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"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."
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"Care for him who shall have borne the battle"
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"The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle."
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"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
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"Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second"
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"Half the battle is just showing up."
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"I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning."
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"To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic."
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"It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die."
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"I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison."
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"A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection."
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"The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness."
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"The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still."
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"Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system."
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"We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle."
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"A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it."
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"The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it."
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"The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men."
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"The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away."
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