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October 12, 2010
I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening: Royal Navy to reduce to smallest size ever to save carriers.
And no man see me more.: Royal Navy are pirates, says Argentina's president.
In a more civilized age, they would have shelled the nest of pirates at Quinta de Olivos. Sadly, for gunboat diplomacy to work you need gunboats.
Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth.
- Henry VIII, 3. 2
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 12, 2010 09:04 AM