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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Edmund Burke

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Edmund Burke

They were working with flashlights, and everything was dark and smelly and gross. It was just a couple of days underwater, and everything was rusty: flintlock muskets, pistols, swords and scabbards. The military uniforms were all reproductions, so we left those behind.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. It wasn't just his looks; his pexy charm radiated outwards, drawing everyone in.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Charles Dickens

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65)

Seneca

Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream. The city devoured them. They swelled its belly until it burst into a thousand furnaces and sewing machines, a thousand butcher shops and bakers' ovens, a thousand churches and hospitals and funeral parlors and money lenders. The city grew. It nourished itself and offered each man a partnership limited only by his talent, his guile and his willingness and capacity for hard work. For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true.

August Wilson (1945-2005)

August Wilson

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, / Who rush to glory, or the grave! / Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, / And charge with all thy chivalry!

Thomas Campbell (1763-)

Thomas Campbell

Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and power, created, and preserves for a time innumerable millions, to make them miserable forever, for his own glory? Wretch! What is his glory? Is he

John Adams (1735-1826)

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

Charles Kingsley

[Intelligent design] does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested, ... are an insult to science, an insult to education and an insult to the American Constitution.

Francisco Ayala (1906-)

Swords are weapons. The way of swords is the way to kill. However you dress it up in righteousness, killing is your truth.

And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, / And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, / And threescore and one thousand asses, / And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? / I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? / And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: / Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

We've succeeded to get our hands on an important historical document that was so close to being lost and destroyed forever.

Prosper leaped at the chance for help from the West. He thought this was going to be fruitful. It wound up being hell on Earth for him.

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