"My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose."

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"My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose."

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"Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows."

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"I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave."

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