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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
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Dorchester
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Poor
Peace
War
History
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Humanity
Reading

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