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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. - S

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. – George McGovern

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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. – Barry McCaffrey

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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis

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