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Carl von Clausewitz Quotes: In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.
         

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.


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