"When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt."
— War and peace

January 1, 1970

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Francis Moore, Almanac. Monthly Observations for 1829, p. 23. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.