If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
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Before the war ended common sense had rescued me from any belief that war could do the human race, or my country, any good whatever.
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