"They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business."

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Source : Kenneth Roberts (1947). “Lydia Bailey”

Kenneth Roberts

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“There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.”
“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . .”
“The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 568), 1895.
“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.”
“Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.”
“Every man lives by exchanging.”

Source : Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.31, VM eBooks
“If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.”
“The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.”

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