“A bawd, eh?” says he, and bared his teeth. “Trust you to make for a brothel. Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine, quam e ration*, you dirty little rip.”
*Men do more from habit than from reason.
Flashman and the Redskins, p.32, Pan Books edition, 1983.
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