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

    There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
    Came that “Ave atque Vale” of the poet’s hopeless woe,
    Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    God grant we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I don’t mean stupid, but to have to go to war on account of tiresome Servia beggars belief.
    Mary (1867–1953)

    They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
    Georg Büchner (1813–1837)