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The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

The War,’ said a soldier proverb, ‘will last a hundred years–five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.
– Preston William Slosson

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