Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 March 2012

A dull world



... it would be a dull world if there were no subalterns in it. Quieter, mind you.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.123, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Charitable thoughts

Charitable thoughts, you’ll say. Aye, it’s a hard world, and while bastards like Hudson have their uses, they can be most inconvenient, too. I wanted him dead, then, as much as I ever wanted anything.



Flashman, p.241, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.




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