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• What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?
  They sought a faith's pure shrine. -- Felicia D....
• War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world.
  Now, its the second largest army in Iraq. -- Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991...
• The victor belongs to the spoils. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
• One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel
• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine.
  It is only those who have neither fired a shot, nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation....
• Brandy and water spoils two good things. -- Charles Lamb
• Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
• The modern conqueror cannot "take" any spoils. -- Sir Norman Angell (1872-1967)