Status Updates From Sempre um colegial

"You have to keep it moving, they said. You have to raise the threshold all the time. Lose the initiative once and you lose it forever"

No battle was ever won by spectators, was it?

"When he had finished he sat back, and took off his spectacles and polished them - not on the fat end of his tie, for once, but on a new silk handkerchief in the top pocket of his black jacket, for he had spent most of the day cloistered with the Cousins on another fence-mending mission"