Sir John Hippisley

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    “What a treat to hear Thy Word
    Where the bones of leading statesmen,
    Have so often been interred.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
    Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
    For to fight is but to die!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)