We never do live quiet. The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel.
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We have all read the sermons. We could write them ourselves. But we are vain and ambitious all the same, and we never do live quiet, because we rise in the morning and we feel the blood coursing in our veins and we think, by the Holy Trinity, whose head can I stamp on today? What worlds are at hand for me to conquer? Or at least we think, if God made me a crewman on his ship of fool's, how can I murder the drunken captain, and steer it to port and not be wrecked?
We never do live quiet. The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel.
We never do live quiet. The Mirror and the…
We never do live quiet. The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel.
We have all read the sermons. We could write them ourselves. But we are vain and ambitious all the same, and we never do live quiet, because we rise in the morning and we feel the blood coursing in our veins and we think, by the Holy Trinity, whose head can I stamp on today? What worlds are at hand for me to conquer? Or at least we think, if God made me a crewman on his ship of fool's, how can I murder the drunken captain, and steer it to port and not be wrecked?