Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Carl von Clausewitz

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