You’re not ninety-two

‘But then, you’re not ninety-two,’ he added with satisfaction. ‘and probably never will be, because you won’t look after yourselves as I have done. Mens sana in corpore sano* as they used to tell us at Rugby, and if you believe that you’ll believe anything.’

*A healthy mind in a healthy body (Speedicut)


Mr American, pp.385-6, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.


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Cheers Paddy

“Never trust a political,” says he. “Health Flashman.”




Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.358, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Scout first

Coward’s instinct if you like, but if I’m still here and in good health, bar my creaky kidneys and a tendency to wind, it’s because I shy at motes, never mind beams — and I don’t walk straight in where I can scout first.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.172, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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