| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8106 |
| QUOTATION: | There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary Elizabeth Braddon (18371915), British writer. Lady Audleys Secret, ch. 32 (1862). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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