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Henry’s career since the age of thirteen has been an applied lesson in the first principles of warmongering: it must be paid for, and it will always cost more than it should. To lose one’s grip on finance risks political crisis.

— Dan Jones Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (2024)

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