If ... Australia and Eurasia could have been interchanged ... Eurasians would be ... reduced to ... fragments.  Guns, Germs And Steel

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. The Mysterious Stranger

“But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally either in public or private life must have his eye fixed.” Republic

The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement. Bleak House