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“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“We cannot build the future by avenging the past.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.”
― T. H. White

“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”
― T.H. White

“Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.”
― T.H. White

“Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King