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Teutonic Knight - too late, I started Churchill today. I can honestly say I have never learnt as much from reading the introduction to a book as I did from this one. I am now an expert on the workings of English parliamentary democracy, due to a glossary of terms provided, ostensibly, for the American reader Do you know what a privvy councilor is? I do now
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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