| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56976 |
| QUOTATION: | They make a wilderness and call it peace. (Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Tacitus (c. 55120), Roman historian. Tacitus, in Agricola, sect. 30.
Quoting the British chief Calgalus, speaking of the Romans. |
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