So I told him I had ambitions, too – to live as I please, love as I please and never grow old. He didn’t think much of that , I fancy; he told me I was frivolous, and would be disappointed. Only the strong, he said, could afford ambitions. So I told him I had a much better motto than that…
“Courage – and shuffle the cards”...
Royal Flash,
p.25,
Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.Tags:
Flashman, Flashman quotes,motto.
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