“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”
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“More books have been written with Napoleon in the title than there have been days since his death in 1821.”
― Napoleon: A Life
― Napoleon: A Life
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
― By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
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