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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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These [messengers] will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

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