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War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

— Charles Edward Montague Disenchantment (1922)

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See Congreve, The Mourning Bride, act 3, sc. 2

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Civilization itself, the at any rate habitable dwelling which was to be shored up by the war, wears a strange new air of precariousness.

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The true delight of travel, the one that is going to print itself unaccountably and indelibly on you, seems to prefer to come as a thief in the night, and not at the hours you specially fix for its entertainment.

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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used to keep your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of some more innocent person.

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