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Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.Winston Graham
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Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.Winston Graham
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I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.Winston Graham
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If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.Winston Graham
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In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.Winston Graham
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All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.Winston Graham
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I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?Winston Graham
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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.Winston Graham
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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 or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.Winston Graham
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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 strayed to the story of some saint of the past? Or were there perhaps two men being buried under the same name? One perhaps had shown himself to Ross, while the other had been reserved for the view of men like William-Alfred. Ross tried to remember Charles before he was ill, Charles with his love of cockfighting and his hearty appetite, with his perpetual flatulence and passion for gin, with his occasional generosities and meannesses and faults and virtues, like most men. There was some mistake somewhere. Oh well, this was a special occasion.. But Charles himself would surely have been amused. Or would he have shed a tear with the rest for the manner of man who had passed away?.Winston Graham
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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...Winston Graham