The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. — Sir Edward Grey
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
1914
★ 5.1Remark just before the beginning of World War I.
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Grey, Edward. Twenty-Five Years, 1892-1916. Vo1. 2, Frederick A. Stokes, 1925, ch. 18.
