"The triumphs recently won by our Navy are largely to be attributed to the training which enabled us to garner the fruits of the fighting. If then we infer the future from the past, we recognize that though war may ceases we can not abandon ourselves to ease and rest."
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"Remarks by Admiral Togo at dispersal ceremony for the combined fleet" (1905)
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