Ouida Quote

They had lived in London and Paris all their lives, and had, before this, heard patriotism used as a reason for a variety of things, from a minister's keeping in office against the will of the country, to a newspaper's writing a country into bloodshed and bankruptcy; they were quite aware of the word's elasticity.

Wisdom, Wit and Pathos (1884)

They had lived in London and Paris all their lives, and had, before this, heard patriotism used as a reason for a variety of things, from a...

They had lived in London and Paris all their lives, and had, before this, heard patriotism used as a reason for a variety of things, from a...

They had lived in London and Paris all their lives, and had, before this, heard patriotism used as a reason for a variety of things, from a...

They had lived in London and Paris all their lives, and had, before this, heard patriotism used as a reason for a variety of things, from a...