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Niccolò Machiavelli

wars don’t just go away, they are only postponed to someone else’s advantage.

The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don’t just go away, they are only postponed to someone else’s advantage.

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Robert Browning

Deeds let escape are never to be done.

Deeds let escape are never to be done.

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John Steinbeck

I have owed you this letter for a very long time

I have owed you this letter for a very long time — but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.