"There were several Battles between the Yorkists..." - Quote by Jane Austen
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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“I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.”
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
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“Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.”
“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.”
“We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is.”