Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci
Howarth began to see that, however much it was against one's will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late. Anthony Burgess