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Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir and/or john:

    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)

    Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
    Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)

    I have a Vision of the Future, chum.
    The workers’ flats in fields of soya beans
    Tower up like silver pencils, score on score.
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)