Author: Voltaire (quoting the Quaker Andrew Pitt)

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  • IN: Of Love and other Wars (2013) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: When after a victorious battle, all London sparkles with illuminations, when the sky is ablaze with fireworks, when the air is filled with the noise of thanks-giving, bells, organs, cannons; we wail in silence over the murders that caused the public rejoicing.
    FROM: Premiere Letter sur les Quakers, (1734), Letter, France