First law of gossip—there’s no point knowing something if somebody else doesn’t know you know it. - Ben Aaronovitch

In home furnishing terms, past a certain point, more money doesn’t get you anything except an increase in insurance premiums.

Nightingale has always been reluctant to let me loose on the library and I must have frowned or something because he went on, “My worry with you, Peter, is not what you would learn but that, should you go into the library, you might never emerge again.”

I'm interested in history," I said. "Why don't you tell me what happened."
"Why would a young man like you be interested in history?"
"So I can avoid repeating it.