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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3947
AUTHOR:Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
QUOTATION:There never was a good war or a bad peace. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.—Samuel Butler: Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler’s Remains. [back]
 

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