George Meredith Quotes
It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
Meredith, George. "Juggling Jerry." Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads. Chapman & Hall, 1862, p. 94.
While this was a common attitude for years before, the horrors of World War II produced a general revulsion to war and an awareness that war between two nations spills over to other states in the region and in an era of globalization, effects countries in other parts of the world. So there has been a tendency to use diplomacy endlessly, even after "things have gone too far". Historically, when things reached that point, the parties did fight it out, and when one was weakened sufficiently, negotiations and diplomacy could then be fruitful.
Attila the Hun. They were discussing a structure for negotiating Attila’s grievance against Rome.
Shlomo ben Yitzchak
George Meredith OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
