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There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.
— Rafael Sabatini
I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock.
— Rafael Sabatini
We are all too prone to judge - upon insufficient knowledge.
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A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
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I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.
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To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
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A scarlet flame suffused her face. 'You are very insolent,' she said, lamely. 'I've often been told so. But I don't believe it.
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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
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SCARAMOUCHE Rafael
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Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!
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When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
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But they were fated to misunderstand each other.
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I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity.
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He saw light, dazzling, blinding, and it scared him.
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Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.
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He was recovering his normal self amazingly under the inspiring stimulus of conflict.
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Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
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If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind.
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You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.
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With you it is always the law, never equity.
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We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.
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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!
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I hate possibilities - God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.
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Do you wonder that they will
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He still had, you see, illusions about Christians.
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He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche)
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Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience.
"Possibly. But I like my madness. — Rafael Sabatini
"Possibly. But I like my madness. — Rafael Sabatini
I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.
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A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him.
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It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.
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It is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
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I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did;
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Only he who is without anything is without enemies.
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[Blood upon killing Levasseur] 'I think that cancels the articles between us,' he said.
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He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.
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Evidently not. They are just governing
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In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.
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But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
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There is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.
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[W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.
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From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.
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Life can be infernally complex,' he said.
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Truth is so often disconcerting.
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You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
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