M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

M. E. W. Sherwood

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• War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • War
  • Peace
  • Sweet