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When DO officers threw around the cliché “Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counteraccusations,” they meant it.
“this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: “The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe.” Sorel”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey.” “If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“One of them remarked, in a flat weary voice, "The wolves will eat well this year.”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
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