Lord John Beresford

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“We entertaine him alwayes like a stranger,
And, as at first, still lodge him in the manger.”
—Unknown. Yet if His Majesty, Our Sovereign Lord (l. 29–30)

““Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)