Mary Boleyn/sister%e2%80%99s Rise To Power

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    Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.
    —Edward T. Lowe. Frank Strayer. Dr. von Niemann (Lionel Atwill)