Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate. The Art Of War
it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. Mansfield Park
Time is a game played beautifully by children. Fragments
Russia! Russia! I see you now, from my wondrous, beautiful past I behold you! How wretched, dispersed, and uncomfortable everything is about you... Dead Souls
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