“He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sportingand its proscriptions againstengagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
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