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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As Ovid would say

Sit down, man, before you fall — vitiant artus agra contagia mentis,* as Ovid would say if he could see you.

*When the mind is ill at ease, the body is somewhat effected.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.60, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Concentrates the mind

…having Mangas Colorado looming over you, looking like something off the gutters of Notre Dame, concentrates the mind wonderfully…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.172, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Foul thoughts

If you have a foul mind, as I do, you think foul thoughts readier than clean ones…

Flashman, p.267, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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