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  • Not an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses.

    -Jules Claude Gabriel Favre
      Reply to Bismarck's demands for concessions,18 Sep, following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Quoted in A  J P  Taylor TheStruggle for Mastery in Europe1848^1918 (1954), p.212.

  • A cubic inch of some stars weighs a hundred tonsBlue tit, who could measure the power of your tiny spark of energy?

    - Norman Alexander MacCaig
      'Blue Tit on a String of Peanuts'.

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