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“The problem of Palestine’, one British general decided, was ‘the same as the problem of Ireland, namely, two peoples living in a small country hating each other like hell.”
― Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
― Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
“Having begun their protest by demanding that the realm should be governed only by ‘native-born men’, the opposition now insisted on nothing less than the total expulsion of all foreigners, ‘never to return’.”
― A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
― A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
“English was a complex hybrid of Anglo-Saxon and Norse, with a strong overlay of Norman-French, and was difficult for outsiders to learn fluently because of its consequent lack of linguistic logic.”
― Thomas Cromwell: A Life
― Thomas Cromwell: A Life
“What was that Poe quote that Lydia liked so much? I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. The ducks and the pond are well behind me now.”
― Black-Eyed Susans
― Black-Eyed Susans
“If there’s one thing I hate more than trophy killing, it’s taxidermy. You’ve killed it. Don’t take the piss. Don’t fill it with sand and make it play poker with a load of animals that it would have made mincemeat of in the wild, for God’s sake.”
― Spectacles
― Spectacles
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