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> [“For twenty years, Peter had been playing with soldiers; first toys, then boys, then grown men. His games had grown from drills involving a few hundred idle stable boys and falconers to 30,000 men involved in the assault and defense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-massie/for-twenty-years-peter-had-been-playing-with-soldiers-first-toys-then/)

[Robert K. Massie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-k-massie/)

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> [For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-they-might-be-parted-for-hundreds-of-years-she-and-peter-she/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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