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War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinc — Robert Graves Recalling War

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air .

Robert Graves Recalling War

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No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I prop — Ulysses S. Grant
J'y suis, et j'y reste. — Here I am and here I stay. MacMahon
Ares (the God of War) hates those who hesitate. — Euripides
Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword. — Miguel de Cervantes
The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as serve — Samuel Butler
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper wh — Oscar Wilde
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with — Miguel de Cervantes
How can there be war and the next day eating, a man stacking plates on the curl — Naomi Shihab Nye Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it. — Rabindranath Tagore
Love better is than Fame. — Bayard Taylor
So many gods, so many creeds— So many paths that wind and wind While just the ar — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret. — Jean de La Fontaine