If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instru

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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