It isn’t courtly politics if somebody doesn’t get a dagger in the back. - Ian Tregillis

Well," he said, "you must be feeling very proud of yourself right now."\n"It occurs to me that I might be an underappreciated genius." She paused to clutch the mast again during a particularly hard gust. "But I'll tell you something. It's not so wonderful, learning you were right all along to suspect the world is conspiring against you.

How could you comprehend things whose existence you doubt?

And, as was so often the case, the history taught to children was oversimplified, watered down, and ofttimes counterfactual.