“Only a very base person forgets when he is done some shame or mischief.”
Chrétien de Troyes French poet and trouvère
Que molt est malvais qui oblie
S'on li fait honte ne laidure.
Source: Perceval or Le Conte du Graal, Line 2902.
“Some of us personally witnessed what was done on the continent under that sign and it is a symbol we shall never forget.”
Reacting to a youth who had given the Hitler salute; from a speech in Wolverhampton (6 June 1970), quoted in Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 558.
1970s
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