Sins so blacker

Why? Because we were Christian, and supposed to know better? – and becaue England contains this great crowd of noisy know-alls that are forever defending our enemies’ behaviour and crying out in pious horror against our own. Why our sins are always so much blacker, I can’t fathom.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.253, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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All men fear

It is no sin to be fearful, any more than it is a sin to be one-legged or red-haired. All men fear – even Yakub and Kutebar and all of them. To conquer fear, some need love, and some hate, and some greed, and some even – hasheesh.

Flashman at the Charge, pp.283-4, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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One sin he missed

No, no, Jesus would see the repentant sinner right, and I would never swear or fornicate or steal or lie again – I strove to remember the seven deadly sins, to make sure I missed none of them, and then cudgeled my brains for the Ten Commandments, so that I could promise never to break them again – although, mind you, I’ve never set up a graven image in my life.

Royal Flash, p.203, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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