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“Men, it is supposed want to pass their wisdom to their sons; he would give a great deal to protect his own son from a quartr of what he knows.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.”
― The Duke's Children, Volume 1
― The Duke's Children, Volume 1
“[T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.”
― The Prime Minister
― The Prime Minister
“He cannot quite accept that real property cannot be changed into money with the same speed and ease with which he changes a wafer into the body of Christ.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
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