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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
No battle is worth fighting except the last one. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
“It's a constant battle. We're constantly fighting it from both ends.” (Seton Ernest Thompson)
A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. (Seton Ernest Thompson)
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