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was a dead British orator and writer who was on my mind. Edmund Burke said the problem with war is that it usually consumes the very things that you’re fighting for—justice, decency, humanity—and I couldn’t help but think of how many times I had violated our nation’s deepest values in order to protect them.
Terry Hayes • I Am Pilgrim
“If they’re telling Godfrey their secrets,” Perry said, “then they are not telling the Germans. Godfrey will be a conduit to divert their treachery into our own reservoir.” Metaphor really wasn’t his forte.
Kate Atkinson • Transcription: A Novel
interlopers like Sir Edward Michelborne
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Official Secrets
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Both services would have done much less damage to their countries, moral and financial, if they had simply been disbanded.
John Le Carre • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels Book 5)
We Are All the Same Age Now: Valuegraphics, The End of Demographic Stereotypes
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where few tacticians could translate their experiences at the company