The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime - 3 August 1914

Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary, had just returned from telling parliament that war was inevitable, and was talking in his office with his friend John Spender, the editor of the Westminster Gazette.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime," Grey said.

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