"The part which we had to act was unavoidable, and he had no hesitation in saying, that he should give his firm suppor…"

"As to what might be the power of the enemy, it was not, he thought, a question upon which they could now deliberate. …"

"The King...said...[he] thought the Duke of Portland weak and of no use, and that he was governed by the Bishop of Mea…"

"Few statesmen have suffered more obloquy than the Duke of Portland. He was not a great man, and was a very poor orato…"

"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…"

"James said that in years to come, when the company had swelled to thousands, people would brag about having been on t…"