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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

—John Donne, 1622

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790
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