#eighteenth

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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