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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Approximate author period: c. 1633 AD · renaissance
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- Thomas Hobbes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1633 AD · renaissance
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