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“The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- e0c4d9b78a35425a0d26fe91d3b5610056ae1707ea382ffe57a1cac1885c5572
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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