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“He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”
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“And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
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And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
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“A French writer once observed that, "in the new colonies, the Spanish start by building a church, the English a tavern, and the French a fort.”
― The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
― The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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“Exploring the mind of the psychotic is impossible - the shortest distance between two points becomes a maze.”
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
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