• It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

    Rudyard Kipling: It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, 
To puff and look important and to say:- 
'Though we know we should defeat you, 
we have not the time to meet you, 
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'
    School History "Dane-Geld (A.D. 980 - 1016)" (1911).