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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 1898081" data-attributes="member: 18832">From Advice to Young Ladies by A.D. Hope:Historians spend their lives and lavish inkExplaining how great commonwealths collapseFrom great defects of policy – perhapsThe cause is sometimes simpler than they think.It may not seem so great an act to breakPostumia’s spirit as Galileo’s, to gagHypatia as crush Socrates, or dragJoan as Giordano Bruno to the stake.Can we be sure? Have more states perished, then,For having shackled the inquring mind,Than those who, in their folly not less blind,Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?From Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen:But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime . . .Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in smothering dreams you too could paceBehind the wagon that we flung him in,And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues –My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.From Inscription For A War by A.D. Hope:Linger not, stranger; shed no tear;Go back to those who sent us here.We are the young they drafted outTo wars their folly brought about.Go tell those old men, safe in bed,We took their orders and are dead.From The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane:XXIVI saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man.“It is futile,” I said,“You can never –”“You lie,” he cried,And ran on.</blockquote>

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