Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Notes from Wikiquote
Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
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