"I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die."

Mary Roberts Rinehart, American Novelist

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"I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die."

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