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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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To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire, they make a wilderness and call it peace.
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No doubt, there was peace after all this, but it was a peace stained with blood.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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58
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120
(aged 62)
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