Showing posts with label pretences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pretences. Show all posts
Monday, 15 February 2010
False pretences
The truth is we all live under false pretences much of the time; you just have to put on a bold front and brazen it through.
Flashman in the Great Game, p.115, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
false pretences
Friday, 12 February 2010
Lifetime impersonation
...I’ve been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of ’em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime’s impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.
Flashman in the Great Game, p.115, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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