I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Never Give In!
“All his life he had not planted one tree in his own garden, nor grown one blade of grass; and living among the living, he had not saved one fly; he had done nothing but destroy and ruin, and lie, lie. . . .” Gooseberries
But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger. On Duties
Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him... he won't understand a word of it. The Castle
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