Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant — Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant — Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant — Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant — Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant — Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
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Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win, and if not to win, then to die?

— Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
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