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No man can be a great officer who is not infinitely patient of details, for an army is an aggregation of details, a defect in any one of which may destroy or impair the whole. It is a chain of innumerable links, but the whole chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

— George Stillman Hillard A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

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