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A weak enemy in the fortress is more fearsome than the strongest outside.

— Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands (1787)

Ein schwacher Feind in der Festung ist fürchterlicher als der stärkste von außen.

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