Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 139, “Taglios: The Great General” (p. 762)
“Is it not true which Seneca reporteth, that as too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much remission spoyleth the minde?”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 112.
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