Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

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War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

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