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Guy de Maupassant on Veterans Day

1850–1893 France

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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Sur l’eau (1888)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Guy de Maupassant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.