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Quote by Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is p

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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Face, Faces
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Thomas Hardy
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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Success
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Thomas Hardy
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy

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Religion
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Thomas Hardy
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. – Wendell Phillips

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