So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death? β¨ H. G. Wells (2015). The World Set Free: H. G. Wells Collections, p.62, θ°·ζη€Ύ
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- Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly β¦ βΆ
- Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. β¨ Kgalema Motlanthe's Farewell Speech. www.iol.co.za. March 12, 2014.
- We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany. β¨ H. G. Wells (2015). Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells, p.17075, Delphi Classics
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