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  1. John Le Carré _ Our Kind of Traitor

    I've studied the disease, I've lived in the swamp. It is my informed conclusion that we are suffering, as an ex-great nation, from top-down corporate rot. And that's not just the judgement of an ailing old fart. A lot of people in my Service make a profession of not seeing things in black and white. Do not confuse me with them. I'm a late-onset, red-toothed radical with balls. Still with me?
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  2. John Le Carré _ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
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  3. John Le Carré _ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
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  4. John Le Carré _ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.
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