Chinese proverb

Be patient, and at last the mulberry leaf will become a silk robe.



Flashman and the Dragon, p.172, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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Time and trouble

For the rest, I thought La Nightingale a waste of good womanhood; handsome face, well set up and titted out, but with that cold don’t-lay-a-lecherous-limb-on-me-my-lad look in her eye – the kind, in short, that can be all right if you’re prepared to spend time and trouble making ’em cry ‘Roger!’, but I seldom have the patience.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.24, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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