Remember the golden rule

However fearful my present predicament, however horrid the odds and dangers ahead, they’d get no better with being fretted over. It ain’t always easy, if your knees knock as hard as mine, but you must remember the golden rule: when the game’s going against you, stay calm – and cheat.

Flashman at the Charge, p.210, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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If only they knew

It’s so easy, as none knows better than I, to sneer at the Pantaloons of this world, and the cheated wives, too, while the rakes and tarts make fools of them – ‘If only they knew, ho-ho!’ Perhaps they do, or suspect, but would just rather not let on.

Flashman at the Charge, p.49, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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…I was so relieved that I was almost happy as I listened to him denouncing me for a wastrel, a fornicator, a cheat, a liar, a brute, and all the rest of it – I couldn’t fault a word of it, anyway.

Flash For Freedom!, p.40, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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