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“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”
Jean Plaidy
“Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency." The Chancellor of the Exchequer and his cousin, Plantagenet Palliser: "Men must have mercenary tendencies or they would not have bred. The man who plows, so he may live, does so because, luckily, he has mercenary tendencies."Jeffrey: "Just so, but you see I am less lucky than the plowman."Palliser: "There is no vulgar error so vulgar, that is to say common or erroneous, as that by which men have been taught to say that mercenary tendencies are bad. The desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combines with honesty, and they cannot take you astray.”
Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?“As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.”
Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors“I wil not heat treason from my own daughterWhat will you do behead me for treason? We are not an amry at warWe are an army at war! This is your brother's rightful throne that we are talking about”
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