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    who said "life is brutish, hard, and short."

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    It's in a line of a Ted Leo song.

    It was originally written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) in his book 'Leviathan'. The phrase refers to man's existence during war, when he said 'life is nasty, brutish and short'.



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