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" War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword. " # War # Death and Dying # Life and Living

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Sir Edmund William Gosse C.B. was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.Gosse worked as assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1867 alongside the songwriter Theo Marzials, and in 1875 became a...

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