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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.


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JOSEPH ADDISON I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
JOSEPH BARTH It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
JOSEPH FOUCHE The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT