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    One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
    —Karl Von Clausewitz (1780–1831)