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Beware of the Sneaky Fuckers

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Peter Limberg
Mar 04, 2021
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I tweeted out an epic quote recently that received over 300 likes: The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools. I thought Thucydides wrote that, but apparently it was from Sir William F. Butler, a British Army officer from the nineteenth century. 

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