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It was elements of the 504th that crossed the River Waal at Nijmegen under fire, paddling in assault boats, directed by a regimental commander as distinguished as Sink, Lt. Colonel Reuben Tucker. The British were both astonished and moved
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“one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“One of them remarked, in a flat weary voice, "The wolves will eat well this year.”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: “The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe.” Sorel”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides,”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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