“…no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier, and who in good faith and without too much qualification assented to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is fair in love and war.”
What does the sentence mean? I looked up all the words I wasn’t familiar with but still unable to understand the sentence.
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Roughly:
He was not afraid to try anything that a brave and noble person who believes that ‘all’s fair in love and war’ would do.
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I have two questions:
What does “qualification” here mean?
Is “all is fair in love and war” the villainous dictum or is it a part of it?
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“All is fair in love and war” is the villainous dictum.
Qualification = a statement that limits or restricts some claim. ‘Assented unreservedly…to the dictum’.
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