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«I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.»
«Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded»
«Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.»
«A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.»
«Follow 'this' path... it is easily accessible and the cart can move freely on it.... treading on which the brave ones do not get vanquished and which also provides better prospects for earning wealth.»
«LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem --a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.»
«Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful»
«Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished»
«Only the vanquished remember history.»
«Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated»

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