Sir Douglas Haig

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“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
—Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

“I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)