“Ladies and gentlemen, let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!”
Claudius Templesmith, p. 147
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Source: Mockingjay
“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”
Source: Snowy Night with a Stranger
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