Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Quoted in Engaged Buddhist Reader: Ten Years of Engaged Buddhist Publishing (1996) by Arnold Kotler, p. 106
“Comrades, I hear the track and beating of the enemy's horse-feet, and withal perceive that some of them come in a troop and full body against us. Let us rally and close here, then set forward in order, and by this means we shall be able to receive their charge to their loss and our honour.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 43.
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