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Thought for the day
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed, — knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
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Published on this day
- 1964 A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
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- Colley Cibber: Gerard Van der Gucht (c.1696–1776), Engraver. Jean Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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