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“But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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- 4167dad926a4a7006cead50fead82606c92d279467de0f6ac609ae16cd355f9f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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