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Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

— Anthony Hope

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The blemishes on honourable lineage are a delicate subject, and certainly this heredity we hear so much about is the finest scandalmonger in the world; it laughs at discretion, and writes strange entries between the lines of the “Peerages”.

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave, I would have him a debonair knave, and I liked Rupert Hentzau better than his long-faced, close-eyed companions. It makes your sin no worse, as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

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