“But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And how are all things made for man?-- KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)”
― The War of the Worlds
― The War of the Worlds
“With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to be confused with the Middle Ages, of course), consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).”
― 1066 and all that: A memorable history of England
― 1066 and all that: A memorable history of England
“What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.”
― The War of the Worlds
― The War of the Worlds
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
― The War of the Worlds
― The War of the Worlds
“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?”
― Yang Shen: The God from the West, Book I
― Yang Shen: The God from the West, Book I
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