Will Randall

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[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

Non Angli, sed Angeli. 7/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘The three Red Guards stared after him apprehensively, silently exchanging glances, crushed by so repellent and naked a manifestation of human misery’. 8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘I am an Englishman and am thy foe,
For thou a foe art unto my liegeance,
and yet mine heart stuffed is with woe
to see thine unkindly disseverance’.
9/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘This was the only case, or one of the only cases, where shooting proved to be entirely inefficacious’. 8.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis
astra ferar, nomenque erit indelebile nostrum,
quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris,
ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama,
siquid habent veri vatum praesagia, vivam. 8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

From Drake’s circumnavigation ‘the investors made a 4,700% return on the £5,000 it had cost to fit out the expedition. The queen’s share was £300,000, more than an entire year’s ordinary income. With this she paid off her whole foreign debt’. 8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘You just never say luck, always say Providence’. 9/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘He is the true prototype of the British colonist. ... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity’. 8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘I had tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and for good or ill wanted to eat more of it’. 8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

Hic iacet Arthurus, Rex quondam, Rexque futurus. 7.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

You know it when you see it. 8.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘Then all of a sudden nothing is there’. 7.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘Although taken as historical truth until the 16th century, it is now considered to have no value as history’. 7.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘I later concluded that if there is one thing as noisy as suffering it is pleasure’. 8.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘Those who conquer by the sword are condemned to be defeated by the plough’. 8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof’. 8/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘To rage and mock is gentlemanly; to grumble and whine is not’. 8.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

Benigno Numine. 8.5/10.

[Will Randall @WillRandall26]

‘The secret to harvesting the greatest enjoyment from existence is to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slope of Vesuvius!’. 9/10.