Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.
And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.
The Courts of Love: The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine
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And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.
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