The Sailpane Grand Prix of United Kingdom was the third qualifying Gliding Grand Prix for the FAI World Grand Prix 2008.
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“Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)
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There the old misgivings, crooked questions are.”
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Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
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