Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Westminster Hall (30 November 1954) for his eightieth birthday, quoted in The Times (1 December 1954), p. 11
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“And I to have gained Honour; yet to have learned that Honour doth be but as the ash of Life, if that you not to have Love. And I to have Love. And to have Love is to have all; for that which doth be truly LOVE doth mother Honour and Faithfulness; and they three to build the House of Joy.”
— William Hope Hodgson, book The Night Land
Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 17 (closing words)
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