The undiscriminating vulture is not our real danger: open scandal would simply drive him into profitless exile again, and would be of no possible advantage to us. Neither should we fear our sturdy patriots who, like your father, are busy with their loyalties in queer and crooked ways. Our danger lies with the men who want to take this country by trunk and limb and wreak it into such a shape that it will fit them and their children for hose and jerkin in their old age." "Some of them are sincere," said Lymond. "I know: and such men will wreck us yet. Preserve us above all from the honest clod and the ambitious fanatic.
( Dorothy Dunnett )
[ The Game of Kings ]
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