"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.“

-Thomas Hardy

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"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."

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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."

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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."

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"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would."

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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."

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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."

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