War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. (Marianne Moore)

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Marianne Moore

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