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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 5591 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | War, war is still the cry,—“war even to the knife!” 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 86. |
| Note 1. ”War even to the knife” was the reply of Palafox, the governor of Saragossa, when summoned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808. [back] |
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