It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power. (Seamus Heaney)

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Seamus Heaney

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