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“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble”. –Charles Reade

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it”. –George Saintsbury

“Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust”. –Robert Southey