All horsepower corrupts. Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Quote More from Patrick Leigh Fermor “At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this i…” “Often, half in a bay of the mountains and half on a headland, a small and nearl…” “Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red…” “Paradox reconciles all contradictions.”