Percy Bysshe Shelley - About war - 161058

"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.“

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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