“After all the bitterest part of our reflection is, that all this misery and decay might have been so easily prevented, and that we brought it about ourselves by our own shortsighted recklessness.”
― The Battle of Dorking
― The Battle of Dorking
“They could not understand that the times had altogether changed, that the Crown had really no power, and that the Government merely existed at the pleasure of the House of Commons, and that even Parliament-rule was beginning to give way to mob-law.”
― The Battle of Dorking
― The Battle of Dorking
“Several of the dogs never returned, for Schmendrick had developed a quick hand and a taste for mongrel”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“When I look at my country as it is now - its trade gone, its factories silent, its harbours empty, a prey to pauperism and decay - when I see all this, and think what Great Britain was in my youth, I ask myself whether I have really a heart or any sense of patriotism that I should have witnessed such degradation and still care to live!”
― The Battle of Dorking
― The Battle of Dorking
“A magician without a beard is no magician at all.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
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