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Another who had sore trouble with his eyes was going forth to war; and when some said to him, ‘Where are you going in that state, or what do you purpose to do ?’ he said, ‘Even if I accomplish nothing else, I may at least blunt an enemy's sword.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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