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

    Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    War. Fighting. Men ... every man in the whole realm is in the army.... Every man in uniform ... An economy entirely geared to war ... but there is not much war ... hardly any fighting ... yet every man a soldier from birth till death ... Men ... all men for fighting ... but no war, no wars to fight ... what is it, what does it mean?”
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

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