https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:24:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/35557/ https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/35557/#respond Tue, 08 Nov 2016 05:12:45 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35557 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm, and peace be venerable to men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“War,” lecture, Boston (1838-03), Aesthetic Papers, Article 3 (1849)
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Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) British author
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Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
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Jim Butcher (b. 1971) American author
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