Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a…

Carl von Clausewitz
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. ✨ Carl von Clausewitz (2008). On War, p.145, Princeton University Press
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. ✨ Carl von Clausewitz (2008). On War, p.145, Princeton University Press

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