During the late eighteenth century, some of the period’s most creative thinkers had predicted—or even advocated—an end to this supposedly “polite” form of war. The French strategist Count Guibert predicted that if a free and virtuous nation
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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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