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BOOK I - CHAPTER V [12/64] For we do not suppose that you have taken refuge in that contempt of an enemy which has proved so fatal in so many instances—a feeling which from the numbers that it has ruined has come to be called not contemptuous but contemptible. “There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present.
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