"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."

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Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1949). “Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales”

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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