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A long time afterwards, she was to remember what an excellent chess-player Francis Crawford was.
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Adam!' said Danny. 'You mustn't drop out of the choir. We have too much to do. What do we have to do?
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He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure - if he survives the experience.
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A versatile commodity, death; except for those suffering it.
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Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said.
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I had no expectations,' Philippa said. The tears stood still on her face. 'This is one lesson I know by heart already.
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What I desire, thou dost not possess for thyself. How canst thou render it then to another?
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Humility is a virtue Scotsmen require to be taught.
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Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
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Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.
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Every ruin is packed like a biscuit box.
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They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.
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And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again.
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I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
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The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own.
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A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
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Kate won't be troubled. I don't know any gentlemen, anyway.''Thank you,' said Lymond. — Dorothy Dunnett
Elephants gave you less bother, any day.
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Henry of England had all the virtues and all the faults, and solved the contradiction by making scapegoats and sin-eaters of half his entourage.
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And, surprisingly, it was Lymond's voice which said sharply, 'You cannot debar a human being from love!
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What an extraordinary fuss there has been,' said the Dame de Doubtance raspingly, 'about that irresponsible Irishwoman and her improper child.
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Look up ... and see them.The teaching stars,
beyond worship
and commonplace tongues. — Dorothy Dunnett
I have many fears,' Lymond said. 'But death is not one of them.
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One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.
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If you will excuse us?''Go to Sir Henry's room,' Lady Mary called after her. 'And if you use weapons, be sure to call witnesses. — Dorothy Dunnett
I once heard a man speak, who had understanding, and the promise of vision. He was called the Master of Culter.
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Acrostics in French or acrostics in Hebrew were still Greek to him.
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I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it.
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He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
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Without thinking at all deeply about anything, he was chiefly aware of the need to be back in a company of men, fighting something.
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Immoderation, Mariotta, is a thief of money and intestinal joy, but who'd check it? Not I. Here I am, weeping soft tears of myrrh, to prove it.
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Subject to intelligence, nothing is incalculable.
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I hope the string and clapper arrangement he calls a mind has been permanently put out of action.
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Lymond surveyed the grinning audience with an air of gentle discovery. Is there no work to be done? Or perhaps it's a holiday?
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I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.
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You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled.
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It is not advisable to crow. It might be oneself next time.
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This is habitual. Mother flutters her wings, and every institution within sight tumbles flat.
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The darts which make me suffer are my own.
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What is there but untruth and heartbreak wherever you go?
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Violence in nature is one thing, but among civilized mankind, what excuse is there?
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I could see you drop dead this minute from paralysis of the brain cells and burst into uninhibited applause.
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I wish,' said Lymond, 'it would try a major key sometimes.''Wind,' Chancellor said, 'is a melancholy creature. — Dorothy Dunnett
Warfare and trickery. It is your natural element.
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You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul.
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She wouldn't send anyone, nor would she take anyone with her. She organizes witches' Sabbaths every full moon,' explained Philippa tartly.
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Lymond said, 'Have I been talking?''We all have, in nightmares. But yours have not been about the sea. — Dorothy Dunnett
We're all runts and bastards of one sort or another.
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I think it would be truer to say,' Philippa said, 'that both of us at the time had our reasons for hurting you.
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His chest heaved, and he coughed. "You have coughed before," his mother said. "It is a sign of weakness. Control it. — Dorothy Dunnett
Words is but wind but dunts is the devil
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The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too.
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I have fallen out of the habit of talking to brothers,' Lymond said.
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It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
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If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.
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Lion-hearted; her tremors braced with virtue, Philippa trotted on.
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Don't you think you should retire again? The first retiral seems to have got mislaid.
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In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.
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Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.''She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing. — Dorothy Dunnett
I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.''That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think. — Dorothy Dunnett
I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body.
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If I did not know how to live, I shall know how to die.
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It was a tragic and annihilating war, in which intellect fought naked with intellect, and the blows fell not upon the mind but upon the soul.
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If he is tired, and they put a foot wrong, he will choose the one unmentionable response and make it. He did it last night.
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Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.
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I have lost you before I have found you.
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Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.
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Quarrelling with the Prince of Barrow was like fighting a curtain. Robin Stewart gave up.
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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And isna Sybilla a wee love o' a bitch?''You say the nicest things about my mother,' said Lymond. — Dorothy Dunnett
He is not going to come back now, for me, for you or for anyone. This time he has found the boatman, and the boatman has taken him over.
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We have reached the open sea, with some charts; and the firmament.
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man had blandly abstained. He had been right: it would have lost him money. But not in Scotland,
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Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
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The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace.
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For how long can one maintain total vigilance?For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure? — Dorothy Dunnett
You will have power and wealth, but what are these to a scholar? You will end your life an oasis in a desert of ignorance.
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The trouble with Austin was that he believed so deeply in the chivalrous virtues that he found it impossible to refer to them.
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I'm going back to Russia. That's where the money is, and the power. And, of course, the ladies.
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Tact,' Lymond said, 'is the name you should have upon your tombstone.
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Don't be so sensitive,' he said, faintly chiding. 'It makes everyday commerce most trying.
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Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business.
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It would have made a fitting tomb, she supposed, for Thady Boy Ballagh. That it was fitting for Francis Crawford she would not believe.
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I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk - just once - in prose like other people.
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