“He stopped in a seedy alley in Holborn where he jumped down from the carriage, held a muttered conference with a dirty, one-eyed old woman, and climbed back in, his arms full of grubby cloth. She wrinkled her nose. "Phew. What the devil is all that?" "It's a dress." "Oh, no. I'm not putting that on. It stinks of last week's washing up." "It smells of the people.”
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“Any conclusion you reach is only as good as the information you bring to it.”
“More than treasures, there are corpses that lie beneath the parched earth.”
“I did not steal because I needed to. I stole to feed my insatiable ambition for influence.”
“The game only ends when you stop pretending there isn’t one.”
“It is a burden to love anyone. And it is a burden to be loved. Stop running from it.”