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#302 Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)

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This book is a selection of written and spoken quotes on a variety of subjects grouped according to broad themes. And designed to give the reader an insight. Into the mind of a man who combined energy of thought and energy of action to an exceptional degree. Napoleon was a manipulator of things and men. For Napoleon each thought

Is a step. To an action. In Napoleon was a radiant power of the mind. That cut through speculation, stripping all problems down to their simplest elements. Discarding all obstacles to action.

To his mind, inaction was unbearable. Work, he said, is my element. I am born and built for work. I have known the limitations of my legs. I have known the limitations of my eyes.

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