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“We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend themselves with paper tools. Meanwhile we glozed our fraud by conducting their necessary war purely and cheaply. But now this gloss had gone from me. Chargeable against my conceit were the causeless, ineffectual deaths of Hesa. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.”

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Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

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“Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike”; an that it was important to make Hussein look as though he had not been a failure in order to keep Britain from looking bad.”

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Book:A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

Source: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East