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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted h

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

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The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. – Edward Young

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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. – Arthur Henderson

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Theres many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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