A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. ✨…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 19, 1799.
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