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He said, gently: it may possibly seem to you, Robertson - at this particular moment in the world’s history that the affairs of Caesar in Gaul some two thousand years ago are of somewhat secondary importance and that the irregular conjugation of the verb “tollo” is even less important still. But believe me my dear Robertson is not really the case.

On Sundays in Chapel, it was he who now read out the tragic list, and sometimes it was seen, and heard that he was in tears over it. Well, why not, the school said; he was an old man; they might have despise anyone else for the weakness.

Every Sunday night, in the chapel after evening service, chatters read out the names of old boys killed, together with short biographies. Very moving; but chips, in the back pew under the gallery, thought: he only names to him; he doesn’t see their faces as I do…

and then someday you’ll see me somewhere and I shan’t recognize you and you’ll say to yourself, “The old boy doesn’t remember me.”But I do remember you – as you are now. That’s the point. In my mind, you never grow up at all. Never.

I remember… I remember… But chiefly, I remember all your faces. I never forget them. I have thousands of faces in my mind – the faces of boys. If you come and see me again in years to come – I hope you all will – I shall try to remember those older faces of yours, but it’s just possible I shan’t be able to -

He had been left a vision that could clear with each year – of an England, for which days of ease were nearly over, of a nation steering into channels where a hair’s breath of error might be catastrophic

Because always, whatever happened and however the avenue of politics twisted and curved, he had faith in England, in English flesh and blood, and in Brookfield as a place who is ultimate worth depended on whether she fitted herself into the English scene with dignity and without disproportion.

“What must be done, best be done cheerfully.” - Pa

“… the greatest gifts of my life have also entailed the greatest suffering… and let’s never forget that if we don’t ever want to suffer, we must be very careful never to love anything or anybody. The gifts of love have been the gifts of suffering. Those two things are inseparable.”

“Supposing you eliminates suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be because everything that corrects the tendency of man to feel over important and over pleased with himself would disappear. He’s bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.” - Malcolm Muggeridge

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“That’s what happens when there is what grownups call ‘an emergency.’ Then people, especially children, can do things they never would have done before.”

“But remember this, the passing of old people or of people of any age is not rightly a matter for sadness, but a matter for triumph. We in our human weakness who manufactured the sadness, not they. They are happier than ever they were before. Look up Martitia, and be glad.”