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It is better to remain 'barbarians' than to base a claim to civilisation on the glory of war
Drawn from what Okakura Kakuzō said
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- Okakura Kakuzō Japanese art critic and scholar (1863 to 1913)
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilisation were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
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↗The Book of Tea (1906)gutenberg.org
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