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The Victor
«I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.»
Author: Abba Eban
(Minister)
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War
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«The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.»
Author: Norman Thomas
(Social Reformer)
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Struggle
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dragon, knight, lance, lances, poop, poops, The Victor, The Victors, thrust, victor
«History is written by the victors.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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History
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history, The Victor, The Victors, victors, written
«LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem --a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself --tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless --sometimes plays at _incubus_, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns; but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._)»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Apollo, brows, dedicated, defoliated, formerly, Laurel, laurels, Laurus, supra, The Victor, The Victors, vegetable, victors, wreathe, wreathed
«No victor believes in chance»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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believes, chance, take chances, The Victor, The Victors, victor
«Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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revengeful, The Victor, The Victors, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes, victor