Tag: mark twain
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Terms of War: Just War
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote or from adherents to Just War: “There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one–on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen…
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Storyssentials: Dialect
“De man ain’t asleep — he’s dead. You hold still — I’ll go en see.” He went, and bent down and looked, and says: “It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He’s ben shot in de back. I reck’n he’s ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan’ look at his face —…