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at leisure1 from other pursuits and not letting slip the right moments for
doing the work well, and that yet we are in doubt whether the right
accomplishment of the business of war is not of supreme moment? Is it so
easy2 that a man who is cultivating the soil will be at
the same time a soldier and one who is practising cobbling or any other
trade, though no man in the world could make himself a competent expert at
draughts or the dice who did not practise that and nothing else from
childhood3 but
treated it as an occasional business? And are we to believe that a man who
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