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Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1773

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

—John Donne, 1622

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50
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