It happened like this in the world. Old things lost their grip and dropped away; not always because they were bad things, but sometimes because the n… - T. H. White

Ought to be havin’ a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin’ all this Latin and stuff

Everybody is always saying what a parfit, gentle knight I am, but it has nothing to do with me. It is Arthur’s idea. It is what he has wished on all the younger generation, like Gareth, and now it is fashionable.

My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.