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Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    “Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.”
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    “Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.”
    —Edward L. Bernds (b. 1911)

    “The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.”
    —Patrick, Mrs. Campbell (1865–1940)