...today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

This is probably the most annoying thing of all to the French. Not only do we pronounce the battles incorrectly (Crécy should be ‘Cray-see’ and Waterloo ‘Watt-air-loh’), with Agincourt (‘Ah-zan-coor’) we even get the spelling wrong.

Written By Stephen Clarke

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