James

“It’s simply that Uncle knows one has to make regular sacrifices to the gods of happiness by wasting time”
― Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna

“EVIL COMES OFTEN to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum: A Novel

“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

“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