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  1. George MacDonald Fraser _ Flashman and the Redskins

    Here I was alone, and could take my own time. In other parts of the world one always seems to be in a great hurry, tearing from one spot to the other at a gallop, but out yonder, perhaps because distances are so great, time don't seem to matter; you can jog along, breathing fresh air and enjoying the scenery and your own thoughts about women and home and hunting and booze and money and what may lie over the next hill.
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  2. George MacDonald Fraser _ Flashman and the Redskins

    you see, and the folly of sitting smug in judgment years after, stuffed with piety and ignorance and book-learned bias. Humanity is beastly and stupid, aye, and helpless, and there's an end to it.
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  3. George MacDonald Fraser _ Flashman and the Redskins

    That guttural, hissing mumble, with all its "Tz" and "zl" and "rr" noises, like a drunk Scotch-Jew having trouble with his false teeth, is something you don't forget in a hurry. So
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  4. George MacDonald Fraser _ Flashman and the Redskins

    man when I see one – and he was the best.7
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  5. George MacDonald Fraser _ Flashman and the Redskins

    wordy descriptions of the journey, which you can get from Parkman or Gregg if you want them – or from volume
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  6. George MacDonald Fraser _ Flashman and the Redskins

    Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters;
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