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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat..." — John Stuart Mill
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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