A Quote by J. E. B. Stuart
Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.
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He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.
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