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#1. He was the only figure able to hold the peace between his uncle

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#2. eagle chicks left in the same nest would soon come to vicious fighting.

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#3. Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick's aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old.

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#4. Rebels depend on willful gullibility.

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#5. The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

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#6. He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

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#7. Extravagance was a political necessity.

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#8. Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

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#9. As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

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#10. He was munificent and liberal to outsiders, but a plunderer of his people, trusting strangers rather than his subjects. . . . [H]e was eventually deserted by his own men and in the end, little mourned.

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#11. What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty ... is to find my eyes of love.

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#12. Believing that Edward's men were at a safe distance in Worcester, Simon's men were unprepared for attack. They did not realize that Edward and Gloucester had spies among them, including a female transvestite called Margoth.

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#14. He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

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#15. he was tried and hanged at Northampton on July 23. (During his trial he claimed that his pet cat had become possessed by the devil and incited him to his crimes. The cat was also hanged.) But

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#16. Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

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#17. Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

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