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Siegfried Sassoon Quotes: I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
         

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.


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And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.



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