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“They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree.
Do you think he would squander souls?”
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As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree.
Do you think he would squander souls?”
―
“Knowledge is power is time is money.”
― Storm and Silence
― Storm and Silence
“Robert Surcouf was the most famous of France’s eighteenth-century privateers who, based on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, grew rich on English plunder before retiring to his native St Malo. Renowned for his chivalry towards prisoners, in France he is perhaps best remembered for the reply he gave a captive officer who admonished him for fighting for money rather than, as the British did, for honour. ‘Each of us fights,’ admitted Surcouf, ‘for what he lacks most.”
― England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942
― England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942
“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”
― Medea and Other Plays
― Medea and Other Plays
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