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- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles), 1910 · Chapter IV (Tactical Dispositions), paragraph 15
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- Lionel Giles translation (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #132)
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
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- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles), 1910 · Chapter VII (Maneuvering), paragraph 19
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- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles), 1910 · Chapter III (Attack by Stratagem), paragraph 18
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- Lionel Giles translation (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #132)
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- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles), 1910 · Chapter III (Attack by Stratagem), paragraph 2
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- Lionel Giles translation (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #132)
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- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles), 1910 · Chapter I (Laying Plans), paragraph 18
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- Lionel Giles translation (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #132)
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- Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1860 · Chapter XIII (Observation of the Sick)
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- Harrison, London (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #17366)