"Defeat goes deeper into the human soul than victory. To be in someone else’s power is a conscious experience which in…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"

"James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in…"