In which we reflect on themes introduced in these pages
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LEWIS WHYLD/PA ARCHIVES/PA PHOTOS
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small and white and green, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green.
William Morris
You must build your House of Parliament upon the river; so…that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
Duke of Wellington
The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, “They come”; our castle’s strength Will laugh a siege to scorn.
Shakespeare, MacBeth
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.
Thomas Paine
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
I was in hope that Lord Illingworth would have married Lady Kelso. But I believe he said her family was too large. Or was it her feet? I forget which.
Dammit, it’s your duty to get married. You can’t be always living for pleasure.
He never touches water; it goes to his head at once.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
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