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“You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Edward Seymour says, ‘You should have been a bishop, Cromwell.’
‘Edward,’ he says, ‘I should have been Pope.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies