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“Roger’s view is that the country is full of evilly-intentioned persons, but that there is no necessity to drag them out of their holes. They had much better be left to rot in obscurity, and will be swamped by the common sense of the community as a whole.’ As the operation continued, so did the debate within MI5 about its future.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

“Two slightly scratched and dented leftovers from the jumble sale of life”
― Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna

“In 1942, Liddell confided a worry to his diary: ‘There is no doubt that the Russians are far better in the matter of espionage than any other country in the world.’ He continued, ‘I am perfectly certain that they are well bedded down here and that we should be making more active investigations. They will be a great source of trouble to us when the war is over.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

“the piquant fact about Lydgate was his good birth”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch (Unabridged): Enriched edition. Victorian Provincial Lives, Marriage, Idealism, and Social Change in 19th-Century England