| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12379 |
| QUOTATION: | The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman, writer. Liaison 1914, preface, E.L. Spears (1930). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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