• The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

  Source: A Distant Mirror

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 1912-1989
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1. undertaking
2. expensive
3. running
4. through
5. century

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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century. by : Barbara W. Tuchman

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