#WWII was truly the last gasp of greatness in England

[idratherdreamofjune]

We also, bearing in mind our own frailties, may yet remember this for our own encouragement: that though we may have denied our faith over and over again, more often than St. Peter and, like St. Peter, with an oath, we have never wholly abandoned it. However blindly and feebly, we still hold on to those great principles that sprang from the eternal standard of values; and when it came to the point, with much distress of mind, with much searching of heart, we were yet willing to die for them.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Begin Here: A War-Time Essay (1940)