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“a rated altitude of 21,000 feet, gave it a 30 m.p.h. advantage over the FW 190 at that height; and this coupled with its astounding rate of climb, meant that for the remainder of the war the Spitfire winged supreme over the war-torn skies of Europe.”
― Douglas Bader, Fight for the Sky: The Story of the Spitfire and Hurricane

“Yashvin”
― Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Works

“The communities of Spain produced an excess of young males who could not be supported off the land and so frequently turned bandit or mercenary.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, The Fall of Carthage

“Naturally I started to read them from end to end, with, at the beginning, about as much attempt to discriminate as a pig working its way through a pail of garbage.”
― George Orwell, The Greatest Works of George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia…