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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Lord Acton

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Lord Acton
Feels
Anxiety
Great
Paper
Every
Trouble
Morning
Certain
Announced
Today
Sigh
Nothing
Catastrophe
Feel
Void

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