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The world war i poet who considered horace's line that it is "sweet and fitting to die for one's country," to be an "old lie" was

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Wilfred Owen incorporated the phrase into his similarly titled poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est", it is now often referred to as "the Old Lie".
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