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The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- Spike Milligan
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Spike Milligan, based on documented lifetime 1918 to 2002. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561401 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561401 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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