One Eight Seven
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...if I was afraid it
would be a Pyrrhic victory.

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And I asked him,
"What' s up with that?"

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He said to go look it up, so I did.
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This is called a city.
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Human beings used to live here.
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It refers to this guy named Pyrrhus.
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He was a king around 300 B. C.
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Pyrrhus defeated the Romans...
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... on two separate occasions.
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But those victories cost him
a large part of his army.

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So now...
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...whenever somebody says...
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...that something
is a Pyrrhic victory...

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...they mean it' s a victory
gained at too great a cost.

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A teacher wrote this movie.
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