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"It was heroic!"
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius."

— Rafael Sabatini Captain Blood (1922)

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They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

Scaramouche (1921)

Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.

Captain Blood (1922)

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Scaramouche (1921)

You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

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"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason."
"I hope I am not obscure," said he.

Captain Blood (1922)

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