Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.