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Famous quotes containing the words general and/or sir:

    “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
    —Morning Prayer, General Confession, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    “They warsled up, they warsled down,
    Till Sir John fell to the ground,
    And there was a knife in Sir Willie’s pouch,
    Gied him a deadlie wound.”
    —Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 5–8)