War is hell, and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Ian Hay

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War and peace War

Speaker

Captain Wagstaffe

Author

Ian Hay

Source

The First Hundred Thousand

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Hay, Ian. "The First Hundred Thousand." Blackwood's Magazine, 1915.

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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

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Topic
Beliefs

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Mark Twain
Source
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Medium
Autobiography and memoir
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
1910 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Harper & Row, 1959, ch. 78.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, and Christopher M. Ohge. Vol. 3, University of California Press, 2015, ch. 78.

Another quote about War

War is to man as motherhood is to woman.

Benito Mussolini

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Topic
War
Speaker
Benito Mussolini
Language
Italian
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Mussolini, Benito. Speech in Italy. 26 May 1934, Chamber of Deputies, Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, Italy.

Another quote from 1915

He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic
Happiness Contentment Being carefree

Author

James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist
Medium
Novel Magazine
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 4.