Now that we are settled here friends, by the order of my office I request as is our tradition that we lift our cup to the old gadfly who lifted his cup by order of pernicious office so that we might enjoy the drink of wisdom fresh. In humble respect I drink this draught with full awareness always for his courage, his earnest nature, and hail then to our most honest and often wisest critic. …showed first 75 words of 906 total…

…showed last 75 words of 906 total…next to a river that swells and ebbs as surely as the sun rises and sets, whose borders are kept secure by oceans of sand; Our world is one of change and you would have things remain the self same for a million years more, so that thirty generations now we will still bless the Guardians every night, and dismiss those from our sight who say those who rule best are those who rule themselves.