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“Cantor would have found out the hard way that you never feed a cat just once. You feed a cat, it owns you ever after.”
― Slough House
― Slough House
“As Judd remarked later, “History has an open-door policy. Any fool can walk right in.”
― Slough House
― Slough House
“Cantor approved of a system which had allowed him to get rich, but he also believed in pulling the ladder up afterwards. If everyone succeeded, nobody did. Anything else was basically communism.”
― Slough House
― Slough House
“This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky bit.”
― Slough House
― Slough House
“there were always men in the background, imagining they were centre stage. The newer variety, who were careful to keep their inner Weinstein on a leash; older ones like Peter Judd, who wore their chauvinism like battlefield decorations; and uncategorisable miscreants like Jackson Lamb, who probably thought the glass ceiling was a feature in a Berlin brothel.”
― Slough House
― Slough House
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