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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

War is not an academic exercise.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

War is not a thing one wants.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.