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Quotation from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.”

Ernest Hemingway (spoken by Frederic Henry)

A Farewell to Arms, Book III, Chapter XXVII (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929))

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When the patriot Gino says the summer's dead cannot have died in vain, Frederic keeps silent and thinks about the proclamations he has read.

Citation: "I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Book III, Chapter XXVII (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929)). (id a-farewell-to-arms-q3)

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