Alan Brooke

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    Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
    Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)

    The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
    Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
    Of blankets.
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)