Only the dead have seen the end of war. — George Santayana · Skopia

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

1922

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Santayana, George. "Tipperary." Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable and Co., 1922.

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