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“Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.”
“I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?”
“If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.”
“All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.”
“In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.”
“I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.”
“Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.”
“Did I behave myself tonight, Ross? she asked. Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?You misbehaved monstrously, he said, and were a triumph.”
“He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism ...”
“Yes, it was a "beautiful" sermon, tugging the emotions and conjuring up pictures of greatness and peace. But were they talking about the decent peppery ordinary old man he knew, or had the subject ...”
“It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...”
“Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?’ she asked. ‘Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?’‘You misbehaved monstrously,’ he said, ‘and were a triumph.”
