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41 " If you buy people,’ old Sambo used to say, ‘buy them thoroughly "
― John le Carré , The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley #6; Karla Trilogy #2)
42 " You alcoholic, dissolute, lecherous, libidinous . . . "
43 " His mind, as he sucked and spat, was fragmented by drink and mild concussion "
44 " We’ve got him, George, darling,” Connie kept saying under her breath. “Sure as boots we’ve got the beastly toad. "
45 " I know what you mean. But I think it safer to stay with institutions, if you don’t mind. In that way we are spared the embarrassment of personalities. After all, that’s what institutions are for, isn’t it? "
46 " After a while, even the best stories grow cold. "
47 " Life’s byways, I always maintain, are even stranger than life’s highways "
48 " Since girlhood, nothing seemed to have happened to her face, beyond a steady fading of its hopes "
49 " Talking of others, old men talk about themselves, studying their image in vanished mirrors "