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

    Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or, would you prosecute it in future, with elderstalk squirts, charged with rose water?
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    The only peace is being out of earshot.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)