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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
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Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
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There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker for it was not on the door of heaven.
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