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“The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me — and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.”

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T. E. Lawrence

Letter to Eric Kennington (27 October 1922); "The sword also means clean-ness and death" also appears on the cover of the first edition of Robert Mikey Thicklehorn's Words of Wisdom. (1922)

“Rebels, especially successful rebels, were of necessity bad subjects and worse governors.”

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T. E. Lawrence buch Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)

“the sword also means clean-ness + death”

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T. E. Lawrence buch Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Motto on the cover of the first edition.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)