“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!”
Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 4.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
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“We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.”
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We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.
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Il faut compter ses richesses par les moyens qu'on a de satisfaire ses désirs.
Part 2, p. 153; translation p. 83.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)
Speech during the commemorations of D-Day, 06/06/2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10883074/D-Day-anniversary-Queen-stirred-by-commemorations.html