“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
“But our people could not be got to see how artificial our prosperity was-that it all rested on foreign trade and financial credit; that the course of trade once turned away from us, even for a time, it might never return; and that our credit once shaken might never be restored.”
― 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
“A magician without a beard is no magician at all.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“Stronger than water and kinder than dove, say the name of the one you love.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
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