“The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.”
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.