R.D. Blackmore Quotes

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• Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more…
• Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth...
• 'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
• Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in…
• It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making…
• ...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?
• Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
• May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two…

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