William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom. I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man s abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace. A thought that had long since and often occured to him during his military activities -- the idea that there is not and cannot be any science of war, and that therefore there can be no such thing as a military genius -- now appeared to him an obvious truth.
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