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Famous quotes containing the words son and/or sir:

“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.

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