My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wi…

Winston Churchill
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My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.
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