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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER IV
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Amendment, that and no other, is the word now.

Let us take the scathe and the scorn candidly home to us;--and try to prepare for doing better.

The world will crow over us.

Well, the world knows little about it; the world, if it did know, would be partly in the right!"-- Wise is he who, when beaten, learns the reasons of it, and alters these.

This wisdom, it must be owned, is Friedrich's; and much distinguishes him among generals and men.


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