Listen,— "'When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught and you smile inwardly, glorying in the insult or the oversight,—that is victory.
— from A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black
du Deffand, who spared her friend on no other points, spared him on this.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various
On Monday night, for instance, a gang (p. 111) of twenty-four, with the order of so many soldiers, and under the directions of a leader who frequently called on those lagging behind 'to keep up,' marched through Springbank, and the neighbouring hamlets to Cowcaddens (in the suburbs of Glasgow), where, in the face of numbers of persons, some of whom bawled out 'Success to Smuggling,' they entered a house, and deposited their laden flasks, until the shades of night would enable them to penetrate in safety to their re-setters in Glasgow.
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton
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