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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
         

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.


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