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Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war. War is the great leveler. It makes no discrimination between the powerful and the weak, the rich and the poor, the educated and the unlettered. All are treated alike, all are expected to suffer alike, all are exposed to the same dangers, all must bear arms…
Source: Against War
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