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So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly.

Prisoners! Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

And you can use that sword, Weland Godfredson?" "As a woman can use her tongue, lord." "You're that good, eh?" Ragnar asked, as ever unable to resist a jest.

Bugger Shekhar. How about a bibbi instead? Maybe I'll read. Your choice, Sharpe said carelessly.

My father tried to control you and said it couldn't be done. He also advised me never to underestimate you. He said you look stupid but act clever. I thought it was the other way around, lord.

That's bloody obvious. A schoolboy with a palsied brain could have worked that one out.

and told that if I disobeyed then the sorceress

What had the Reverend Venables said? That promises in the playhouse were like kisses on May Day. I had just been kissed.

My father still has two eyes," Stiorra said. "But not as beautiful as yours, my lady." "Did you come to waste our time?" Stiorra asked. "Or did you wish to surrender?" "To you, my lady, I would surrender all I have, but my men? You can count?" "I can count." "We outnumber you.

Of the insolence of the Scots, my father used to say, there is no end.

there was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence.

Giving inspiration to a lawyer, Sharpe thought sourly, was like feeding fine brandy to a rat.

Your mother didn't give birth to you," I told him, "but farted you out of her shriveled arsehole.

Frederick the Great once said that the greatest crime in war is not to make the wrong decision, but to make no decision.' Again the Prince gestured at Sharpe with the brandy glass. 'You should remember that axiom, Sharpe!' Sharpe did not even know what an axiom was, but he nodded respectfully. 'I will, sir.

Nimue paused a long time. I think she sensed the truth of Britain before any of us, before even Merlin and certainly long before Arthur

This [Hegel's philosophy] illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of the majority is treated with that kind of religious respect which the orthodox give to the will of God.

But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now

To preserve hope in our world makes calls upon our intelligence and our energy. In those who despair it is frequently the energy that is lacking.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell

it is flattering to suppose that the universe is controlled by a Being who shares our taste and prejudices.