F. Anstey: Man

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“I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that frankness which scorns to conceal what other people know perfectly well already.”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 3, “An Unexpected Opening”

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“These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount of mendacity latent in his system.”

F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 8, “Bachelor’s Quarters”

“He was not a strong-minded man; but he had one quality which is almost as valuable a safeguard against temptation as strength of mind—namely, timidity.”

F. Anstey

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Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)

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