Barbara W. Tuchman - Dead Quotes

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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.

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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

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