• War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

  Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher 1588-1679
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1. sufficiently
2. fighting
3. wherein
4. contend
5. known

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. by : Thomas Hobbes

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