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My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Never say more than is necessary.

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