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

    Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    A sergeant of the lawe, war and wys,
    That often hadde been at the Parvys,
    Ther was also, ful riche of excellence.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    ... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)