My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. – Thomas Hardy
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by Gods Will, united in spirit and in aim. – Queen Elizabeth II