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To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire, they make a wilderness and call it peace.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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120
(aged 62)
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