Madmen with a mission

      Looking back on life, I guess I can’t complain on the whole, but if I have a grievance against Fate, it’s that I seem to have encountered more than my fair share of madmen with a mission. Perhaps I’ve been unlucky, or possibly most of mankind is deranged; maybe it was my stalwart bearing, or my derring-do reputation, but whatever it was, they came at me like wasps to a saucer of jam.

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.98, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Foe of mankind

Conscience, you see? Note that; It’s a bigger foe of mankind than gunpowder.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.274, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Mankind's natural condition?

And it [the emancipation of serfs] was all nonsense, anyway; the Russians will always be slaves – so will most of the rest of mankind, of course, but it tends to be more obvious among the Ruskies.

Flashman at the Charge, p.125, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Toadying like fury

But when you’re royalty they treat you as though you’re god; you begin to feel that you’re of entirely different stuff from the rest of mankind; you don’t walk, you float, above it all, with the mob beneath, toadying like fury.

Royal Flash, p.145, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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