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Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC (March 12, 1821 - October 30, 1893) was the third Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the office for seventeen months, from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892.
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not Beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.
War is the science of destruction.
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
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