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John Maxwell Edmonds Quotes

1875–1958 England

John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.

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When you go home, tell them of us, and say
‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day.’

Went the day well? We died and never knew;
But well or ill, England, we died for you.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Maxwell Edmonds (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.