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"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.…"

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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— George Eliot

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— Charles Lyell

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