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By George Patton
In war nothing is ever as bad, or as good, as it is reported to Higher Headquarters.
- Source
- War as I Knew It, November 1, 1947 · Reflections and Suggestions
- Read at
- Houghton Mifflin, 1947 (text read in the 1980 Bantam reprint, which says it is the complete original text)
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From the "Reports" paragraph in the closing reflections of War as I Knew It (1947).