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Facta Non Verba

I thought I would leave everyone with a quote from Froissart to end the year…when measuring people that freely give advice and hold themselves out as ‘experts’ it is suggested that you look at those who have gained their expertise through experience as opposed to theory.

“There were young knights among them who had never been present at a stricken field. Some could not look upon it and some could not speak and they held themselves apart from the others who were cutting down the prisoners at My Lord’s orders, for the prisoners were a body too numerous to be guarded by those of us who were left. Then Jean de Rye, an aged knight of Burgundy who had been sore wounded in the battle, rode up to the group of young knights and said: ‘Are ye maidens with your downcast eyes? Look well upon it. See all of it. Close your eyes to nothing. For a battle is fought to be won. And it is this that happens if you lose.”       Froissart’s Chronicles, 14th century

I have always found it amusing that  frequently those that are quick to talk of “victory” and winning have rarely ever experienced that of which they are so quick to speak.