In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he found it less exciting.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
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I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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Things are seldom what they seem.
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
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