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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action. ✨ Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). The History of the Peloponnesian War, Oxford University Press, USA
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Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action. ✨ Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). The History of the Peloponnesian War, Oxford University Press, USA

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