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  • Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game,
    Where wasted nations raise a single name;
    And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret,
    From age to age in everlasting debt;
    Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey
    To rust on medals, or on stones decay.

    Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.36