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Ts'ao Sung
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“For already I have learned, that a general's fame stands on a pile of dry bones Of what were once the people.”
Ts'ao Sung (830–902) said by 902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tsao Sung, War. In: Yu Kuan-ying (1954) "Book Review Peace Throwgh the Ages" in People's China, (1954) nr 14. July 16, 1954.-->
“泽国江山入战图， 生民何计乐樵苏； 凭君莫话封侯事， 一将功成万骨枯。”
Ts'ao Sung (830–902) said by 902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As translated by in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1918)
Also quoted by: 曹松 (zh)