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“And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.'
They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs.
'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye.
'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible.”
― The Complete Stalky and Co.
They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs.
'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye.
'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible.”
― The Complete Stalky and Co.
“Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot.”
― The Complete Stalky and Co.
― The Complete Stalky and Co.
“Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.”
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“Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after.”
― The Complete Stalky and Co.
― The Complete Stalky and Co.
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