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No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

Geraldine Brooks

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

Tags: statecraft

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He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

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He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

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If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

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About Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks may refer to:

Geraldine Brooks (actress) (1925–1977), American stage, television and film performer
Geraldine Brooks (writer) (born 1955), Australian journalist and novelist