Verified Source: Winston Churchill — "United wishes and good will…"

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Les souhaits unis et la bonne volonté ne peuvent surmonter les faits bruts

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Churchill's The Second World War memoirs (six-volume set, published 1948–1953)

Translations

“I never take pleasure in human woe.”

Winston Churchill

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