| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38724 |
| QUOTATION: | War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 10, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982).
Spoken by a fictional John Paul Jones. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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