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Claude Adrien Helvetius quote: "Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their..."

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

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The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived. Emily Bronte
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