War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

1904

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Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. Vol. 1, MacMillan & Co., 1904, pt. 1, act 1, sc. 5.

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