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Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that.
Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Lowell. · page_098
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