We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and fo…

Virginia Woolf
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.366
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.366

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