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NUMBER:56976
QUOTATION:They make a wilderness and call it peace.
(Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.)
ATTRIBUTION:Tacitus (c. 55–120), Roman historian. Tacitus, in Agricola, sect. 30.

Quoting the British chief Calgalus, speaking of the Romans.
 
 
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