Saturday, August 9, 2014

IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF SIXPENCE






In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best bedside manner.  It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.






Eric Ambler:  The Mask Of Dimitrios (1939)
 

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