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“The worst imposition of all was to be instructed to take on some costly, long-standing obligation to the crown. Such was the fate of…

— Bill Bryson

“John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying…

— George Eliot

“He was a man born out of his time - a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher,…

— Robert E Howard

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had…

— Samuel Johnson

“recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who’d never been punished so harshly. Had the crime…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You…

— Hilary Mantel

“Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt…

— T.H. White

“As the prisoners saw Lucy, they reached their hands out piteously to her, some begging her for food, others merely mouthing their pain, not…

— Susanna Calkins

“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society…

— Victor Hugo