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“There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Treachery #Statesmanship
“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store byâ€•though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Making Love #Mind #Shade
“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”
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Religious #Men #Lessons
“I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.”
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Dog #Yankees #Texas
“Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.”
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Order #Years #Ideas
“The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.”
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Ignorance #Two #Political

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