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If there’s one thing that can make me puke with terror, it’s having an Oriental despot tell me I’m inconvenient.



Flashman and the Dragon, p.130, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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Free man or fool.

We like to think we are above that sort of thing, of course; the Englishman, however miserably off he is, supposes that he’s a free man, poor fool, and pities the unhappy foreigners raging against their rullers. And his rulers, of course, trade on that feeling, and keep him underfoot while assuring him that Britons never shall be slaves.

Royal Flash, p.252, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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