Survive and prosper

      There’s no question that a public school education is an advantage. it may not make you a scholar or a gentleman or a Christian, but it does teach you to survive and prosper—and one other invaluable thing: style.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.148, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Minor ordeals

The minor ordeals can be damned scaring simply because you know you’re going to survive them.

Flashman's Lady, p.25, Pan edition, 1979.

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Nothing so cheering

With the danger safely past, I was soon in good fettle again. As I’ve said before, there’s nothing so cheering as surviving a peril in which companions have perished, and our losses had been heavy.

Flash For Freedom!, p.85, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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