This quote is often attributed online to a letter from Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law, Catherine May Scott. But that might be apocryphal — and the felicitation might date as far back as Plato.
Ali Jane Smith gives us an excellent breakdown here at the Sydney Review of Books.
“Yet the poor fellows think they are safe! They think that the war is over! Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
— from George Santayana’s “Tipperary,” in his Soliloquies in England, 1924
(This quote is often misattributed to Plato, most notably by General Douglas MacArthur in a 1962 address at West Point, according to the online sources I consulted.)
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