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But all knowledge has to be won � like every other thing that is worthy of us sons of God.


Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

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JOYCE GRENFELL And quivers in the sunny breeze.
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- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only ...
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(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fathe...
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WILFRED OWEN And in the happy no-time of his sleeping/ Death took him by the heart.
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Or fil...
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A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
B...
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May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up...
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Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unso...
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My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,
My back's...
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And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
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Pro patria mori.
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Only...
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AYTEKIN SIR These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
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