'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together. - R.D. Blackmore
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
- R.D. Blackmore
It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to… - R.D. Blackmore
It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to…
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth. - R.D. Blackmore
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.
Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . . - R.D. Blackmore
Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it. - R.D. Blackmore
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? - R.D. Blackmore
...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?
'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.' - R.D. Blackmore
Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken. - R.D. Blackmore
Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a … - R.D. Blackmore
Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a …
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