And the first king was a lucky soldier.
Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.
Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.