Let me enlighten you. We are a pack of liars, thieves, and wastrels, the lot of
us...There is not an honestly gained parcel of land in the whole earldom. Every acre, every village was stolen through one reprehensible manner or another. Deceit, blackmail, extortion, all of
it. It’s disgusting.”

Alex waited a moment to make sure Whit was quite through before asking, “How long ago?”

“Did we steal the land, do you mean?”
Alex nodded.

“Up until about a hundred years ago, then the wastrels took over.


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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like...
RACHEL JOHNSON
People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right...
RACHEL JOHNSON
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answer...
RACHEL JOHNSON
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the ch...
RACHEL JOHNSON
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of h...
RACHEL JOHNSON
I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thru...
RACHEL JOHNSON
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you beh...
RACHEL JOHNSON
I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
RACHEL JOHNSON
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realis...
RACHEL JOHNSON
In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
RACHEL JOHNSON
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, es...
RACHEL JOHNSON
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, ...
RACHEL JOHNSON
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have an...
RACHEL JOHNSON
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see wh...
RACHEL JOHNSON
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of th...
RACHEL JOHNSON
I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' the...
RACHEL JOHNSON
I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON
The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband co...
DAKOTA JOHNSON
Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
NANCY JOHNSON
Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles ...
NANCY JOHNSON
We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But ...
NANCY JOHNSON
How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almo...
NANCY JOHNSON
I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It ma...
NANCY JOHNSON
No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. ...
NANCY JOHNSON
House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
NANCY JOHNSON
Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a c...
NANCY JOHNSON
I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
GARY JOHNSON
Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally...
GARY JOHNSON
I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to goi...
GARY JOHNSON
At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it wa...
GARY JOHNSON
I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alco...
GARY JOHNSON
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
GARY JOHNSON
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty an...
GARY JOHNSON
I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good gover...
GARY JOHNSON
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosop...
GARY JOHNSON
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the be...
GARY JOHNSON
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared...
PAUL JOHNSON
I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this br...
BORIS JOHNSON
I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ...
RON JOHNSON
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the fals...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He who praises every body, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administra...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentall...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours....
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at th...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organizatio...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your c...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might b...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON
(Surrogacy) just felt right for us.
AIMEE JOHNSON
In one phone call, you're whole life changes. We dropped the whole baby thing. Thankfully I was at t...
AIMEE JOHNSON