This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7)

by Jeffrey Archer

Nine-tenths of a battle is won in preparation long before the first shot is fired.

words are cheap, but action comes more expensive,

How little needs to be said when you’ve been together for more than fifty years.

“His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world, This was a man!”