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Ramsey Milholland

CHAPTER XIV
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"I can't think of the Germans without hating them, and so to-day, when all the world is hating them, I keep myself from thinking of them as much as I can.

Already half the world is full of war; you want to go to war to make things right, but it won't; it will only make more war!" "Well, I--" "Don't you see what you've done, you boys ?" she said.

"Don't you see what you've done with your absurd telegram?
That started the rest; they thought they _all_ had to send telegrams like that." "Well, the faculty--" "Even they mightn't have thought of it if it hadn't been for the first one.

Vengeance is the most terrible thought; once you put it into people's minds that they ought to have it, it runs away with them." "Well, it isn't mostly vengeance we're after, at all.

There's a lot more to it than just getting even with--" She did not heed him.


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