The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness #3)

by Joe Abercrombie

“The thing about history is you don’t know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters.”

“I was thinking something along the lines of… we consider these facts to be self-evident—” There was instant opposition from among the great thinkers. “What? Nothing is self-evident!” “Pretentious! Presumptuous!” “Asking for trouble.” “Terrible first line.”

“Well, at least one of us has something long.” She started forwards and jabbed her little finger in his face. “Guess we know why they call you the Nail now!” “My cock’s… decent-sized!” He spat at her feet.