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“ I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you’ll put up with Metternich you’ll put up with anything. ”

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I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong

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We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

~ George Macdonald Fraser

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

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. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

~ George Macdonald Fraser