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“… and now, in the effort to impose a world of peace, he found himself up to the elbows in blood.”

“‘Yet here I am denouncing their ideas of nationalism, being what their politicians would call a traitor—because, by calling names, they can score the cheap debating points. And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.’”

“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically—to those who hardly think about us in return.”