Percival Lowell: War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish — Percival Lowell

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Percival Lowell

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Je n'entre qu'à moitié dans la guerre civile. Je veux bien y mourir, je ne veux — Victor Hugo
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The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate. — Friedrich Schiller
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