Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ✨ Jam…

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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.32
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.32

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