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To the Ends of the Earth

by William Golding

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Mar 21, 2026 03:07PM

“Remember you’re all representing your country, and you ought to behave as the Empire does.’ ‘So we can kill and loot at will, steal their goods and claim the planet as our own?’ Suruk said.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

tags: humour, satire

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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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“You’ll slip up, just like everyone else who tries to mess with the British Empire. They all get it wrong somehow – forget some detail, make some tiny error, invade Russia – and then it’s all downhill from there.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

tags: humour

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“Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.”
― Toby Frost, Wrath of the Lemming Men

tags: humour, sci-fi

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“Also a fan of being inscrutable, Franco once said, 'You are a the slave of what you say and the master of what you don't say.' He might have added that that approach isn't always guaranteed to work. If you attempt, for example, to be sphinx-like, mysterious and enigmatic when you get to the front of a long queue at the chip shop, you do risk being punched quite hard in the back of the head.”
― Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework

tags: chip-shop, enigma, franco

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