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  • To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

    - Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
      Sybil, bk.1, ch.5.

  • There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supportshiskingon loyal principles and cuts off hishead on republican principles.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      The Man of Destiny.

  • For my part, I will have only those glorious manly pleasures of being very drunk and very slovenly.

    -William Wycherley
      The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.

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