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“We only of Creation
(Oh, luckier bridge and rail!)
Abide the twin damnation—
To fail and know we fail.”
-Rudyard Kipling, The Hymn of Breaking Strain
"If we could survive without a wife, all of us would do without that nuisance… but we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure." -Augustus
“Gentile or Jew,
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.”
-T. S. Eliot
“Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves.” -Samuel Butler, June 1863
"I love England (not Great Britain and certainly not the British Commonwealth (grr!))" -J. R. R. Tolkien
“The worship of God is therefore the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.” -John Calvin
“All the hatred in the world is gathered on me, as promised. So, all you have to do is to erase my existence, and put an end to this chain of hatred.” -Lelouch vi Britannia
“I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: ‘til we have built Jerusalem on England’s green and pleasant land.”
-William Blake
"If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German; — and to the shame of the German nation." -Mozart