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" No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. "

Francis Bacon

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Exercise

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Children

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Enemy

Man

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Strength

Many

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Francis Bacon

Your

Justice

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