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Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, once you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morni..
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And I begin to see it. How a man may hardly know his sister, and meet her as a grown woman. She is like himself, yet not. She is familiar, yet piques his interest. One day his brotherly embrace is a little longer than usual. The business progresses from there. Perhaps neither party feels they are doing anything wrong, till some frontier is crossed.
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But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.
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In a generation everything can change.
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He did not relish the topic; he sensed in Jane Rochford's tone the peculiar cruelty of women. They fight with the poor weapons God has bestowed - spite, guile, skill in deceit - and it is likely that in conversations between themselves they trespass in places where a man would never trust his footing.
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But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?
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They always say, we'll just do another year. It's called the golden handcuffs.
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all colors of people mingle in the souks and squares. But they do not merge.
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Gregory is a good boy, though all the Latin he has learned, all the sonorous periods of the great authors, have rolled through his head and out again, like stones. Still, you think of Thomas More's boy: offspring of a scholar all Europe admired, and poor young John can barely stumble through his Pater Noster. Gregory is a fine archer, a fine horseman, a shining star in the tilt yard, and his manners cannot be faulted. He speaks reverently t..
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They tell us that the rules of power and the rules of war are the same, the art is to deceive; and you will deceive, and be deceived in your turn, whether you are an ambassador or a suitor.
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why doesn't Yasmin distinguish ... between private morality and public order?
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There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.
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Because Islam doesn't," he said, his voice toneless,"
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Well, you know the form,' Bedingfield says. 'She lives in that room and has her ladies - those ones - cook for her over the fire. You knock and go in, and if you call her Lady Katherine she kicks you out, and if you call her Your Highness she lets you stay. So I call her nothing. You, I call her. As if she were a girl that scrubs the steps.
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You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.
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Zhil nekogda v Fessalii poet po imeni Simonid. Bogach Skopa priglasil ego na pir prochitat' khvalebnuiu odu v svoiu chest'. U poetov byvaiut strannye prichudy, i Simonid vkliuchil v odu khvaly nebesnym bliznetsam Kastoru i Polluksu. Skopa obidelsia i skazal, chto zaplatit lish' polovinu obeshchannogo voznagrazhdeniia, <>. Chut' pozzhe v pirshestvennye pokoi voshel sluga i skazal Simonidu, chto ego sprashi..
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In the year 1257, an elephant died in the Tower menagerie and was buried in a pit near the chapel. But the following year he was dug up and his remains sent to Westminster Abbey. Now, what did they want at Westminster Abbey, with the remains of an elephant? If not to carve a ton of relics out of him, and make his animal bones into the bones of saints?
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At Smithfield Frith is being shoveled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.
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the king's council, and obliged him, Thomas Cromwell, by
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Jane says, 'He asked me if I would be his good mistress.' They exchange glances. There is a difference between a mistress and a good mistress: does Jane know that? The first implies concubinage. The second, something less immediate: an exchange of tokens, a chaste and languorous admiration, a prolonged courtship...
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body; he had a second batch of recalcitrant friars to be dispatched to Tyburn, to be slit up and gralloched by the hangman. They were traitors and deserved the death, but it is a death exceeding most in cruelty. The pearls around her long neck looked to him
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Once they were young men of esprit, young men of elan. A quarter of a century has passed and they are grey or balding, flabby or paunchy, gone in the fetlock or missing some fingers, but still as arrogant as satraps and with the mental refinement of a gatepost.
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tired
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If your going to be ugly it is well to be whole-hearted about it, put some effort in. Georges turned heads.
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Anne says, "It is all about me."
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Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.
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Ha para tudo uma estacao: uma estacao para passar fome e uma estacao para roubar.
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Nobody knows how long the arrests wil go on and who else will be taken. He feels even he does not know, and he is in charge of it.
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as is usual in treason trials, they will have no legal representation. But they will have a chance to speak, and represent themselves, and they can call witnesses: if anybody will stand up for them. Men have been tried for treason, these last few years, and walked free, but these men know they will not escape.
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When he was at the Vatican, in Cardinal Bainbridge's day, he quickly saw that no one in the papal court grasped what was happening, ever; and least of all the Pope. Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows anything.
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And I thought I would win him, I really thought I would, for he was tenacious of the world, tenacious of his person, and had a good deal to live for. In the end he was his own murderer. He wrote and wrote and he talked and talked, then suddenly at a stroke he cancelled himself. If ever a man came close to beheading himself, Thomas More was that man.
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By the blood of creeping Christ, stand on your feet." Creeping Christ? he thinks. What does he mean?"
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Anne climbing the marble steps to Heaven, her good deeds like jewels weighting wrists and neck.
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Vere dignum et justum est, aequum et salutare.
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A phrase runs through his head - was it Thomas More's? - 'the peace of the hen coop when the fox has run home'. He sees the scattered carcasses,
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They are en route to Farnham, a small hunting party, when a report is galloped along the road: cases of plague have appeared in the town. Henry, brave on the battlefield, pales almost before their eyes and wrenches around his horse's head: where to? Anywhere will do, anywhere but Farnham.
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England has enjoyed fifty years of peace. This is the Tudors' covenant; peace is what they offer.
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Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes.
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Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, once you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morni..
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Give me time," she said mockingly. "That's the anthem of the married man. Give me time while I make my excuses, give me time while I sort out my head. Just another week, just another decade, just till my wife understands. Be reasonable, give me time, just till my children grow up, give me time. And what do you suppose time will give to me?"
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Audley pats his arm. He wants to console him. But who can begin to do it? He si the inconsolable Master Cromwell: the unknowable, the inconstruable, the probably indefeasible Master Cromwell.
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If a king cannot have a son, if he cannot do that, it matters not what else he can do. The victories, the spoils of victory, the just laws he makes, the famous courts he holds, these are as nothing.' It is true. To maintain the stability of the realm: this is the compact a king makes with his people. If he cannot have a son of his own, he must find an heir, name him before his country falls into doubt and confusion, faction and conspiracy. ..
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