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Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
“The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.”
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Ernest Hemingway
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Variant: The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
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