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"The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present."

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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