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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 35269 |
| QUOTATION: | It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), U.S. Confederate general. remark, Dec. 13, 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Attributed, Dictionary of War Quotations, ed. Justin Wintle (1989). Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Federal charge repulsed. |
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