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And Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning. This Is Only The First Sip, The First Foretaste Of A Bitter Cup Which Will Be Proffered To Us Year By Year Unless By A Supreme Recovery Of Moral Health And Martial Vigour, We Arise Again And Take Our Stand For Freedom As In The Olden Time.

In Success You Deserve It And In Defeat, You Need It.

By Being So Long In The Lowest Form [at Harrow] I Gained An Immense Advantage Over The Cleverer Boys. . . . I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence - Which Is A Noble Thing. Naturally I Am Biased In Favor Of Boys Learning English; I Would Make Them All Learn English: And Then I Would Let The Clever Ones Learn Latin As An Honor, And Greek As A Treat.

We Shall Go Forward Together. The Road Upwards Is Stony. There Are Upon Our Journey Dark And Dangerous Valleys Through Which We Have To Make And Fight Our Way. But It Is Sure And Certain That If We Persevere - And We Shall Persevere - We Shall Come Through These Dark And Dangerous Valleys Into A Sunlight Broader And More Genial And More Lasting Than Mankind Has Ever Known.

There Comes Into The Life Of Every Man A Task For Which He And He Alone Is Uniquely Suited. What A Shame If That Moment Finds Him Either Unwilling Or Unprepared For That Which Would Become His Finest Hour.