Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand tim…

Carl von Clausewitz
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Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity ✨ Carl von Clausewitz (2008). On War, p.191, Princeton University Press
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Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity ✨ Carl von Clausewitz (2008). On War, p.191, Princeton University Press

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