“Take two opposites, connect the dots, and you have a straight line.”
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“Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.”
Major General Arthur Wellesley, p. 196
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Triumph (1997)
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